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HADOOP - BIG DATA OVERVIEW

90% of the worlds data was generated in the last few years.
Due to the advent of new technologies, devices, and communication means like social networking sites, the
amount of data produced by mankind is growing rapidly every year. The amount of data produced by us from the
beginning of time till 2003 was 5 billion gigabytes. If you pile up the data in the form of disks it may fill an entire
football field. The same amount was created in every two days in 2011, and in every ten minutes in 2013. This rate
is still growing enormously. Though all this information produced is meaningful and can be useful when
processed, it is being neglected.

What is Big Data?

Big Data is a collection of large datasets that cannot be processed using traditional computing techniques. It is not
a single technique or a tool, rather it involves many areas of business and technology.

What Comes Under Big Data?

Big data involves the data produced by different devices and applications. Given below are some of the fields that
come under the umbrella of Big Data.
Black Box Data : It is a component of helicopter, airplanes, and jets, etc. It captures voices of the flight
crew, recordings of microphones and earphones, and the performance information of the aircraft.
Social Media Data : Social media such as Facebook and Twitter hold information and the views posted
by millions of people across the globe.
Stock Exchange Data : The stock exchange data holds information about the buy and sell decisions
made on a share of different companies made by the customers.
Power Grid Data : The power grid data holds information consumed by a particular node with respect to
a base station.
Transport Data : Transport data includes model, capacity, distance and availability of a vehicle.
Search Engine Data : Search engines retrieve lots of data from different databases.
Big Data
Thus Big Data includes huge volume, high velocity, and extensible variety of data. The data in it will be of three
types.
Structured data : Relational data.
Semi Structured data : XML data.
Unstructured data : Word, PDF, Text, Media Logs.
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Benefits of Big Data

Using the information kept in the social network like Facebook, the marketing agencies are learning about
the response for their campaigns, promotions, and other advertising mediums.
Using the information in the social media like preferences and product perception of their consumers,
product companies and retail organizations are planning their production.
Using the data regarding the previous medical history of patients, hospitals are providing better and quick
service.

Big Data Technologies

Big data technologies are important in providing more accurate analysis, which may lead to more concrete
decision-making resulting in greater operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and reduced risks for the business.
To harness the power of big data, you would require an infrastructure that can manage and process huge volumes
of structured and unstructured data in realtime and can protect data privacy and security.
There are various technologies in the market from different vendors including Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, etc., to
handle big data. While looking into the technologies that handle big data, we examine the following two classes of
technology:

Operational Big Data

These include systems like MongoDB that provide operational capabilities for real-time, interactive workloads
where data is primarily captured and stored.
NoSQL Big Data systems are designed to take advantage of new cloud computing architectures that have emerged
over the past decade to allow massive computations to be run inexpensively and efficiently. This makes
operational big data workloads much easier to manage, cheaper, and faster to implement.
Some NoSQL systems can provide insights into patterns and trends based on real-time data with minimal coding
and without the need for data scientists and additional infrastructure.

Analytical Big Data

These includes systems like Massively Parallel Processing MP P database systems and MapReduce that provide
analytical capabilities for retrospective and complex analysis that may touch most or all of the data.
MapReduce provides a new method of analyzing data that is complementary to the capabilities provided by SQL,
and a system based on MapReduce that can be scaled up from single servers to thousands of high and low end
machines.
These two classes of technology are complementary and frequently deployed together.

Operational vs. Analytical Systems

Operational

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Latency

1 ms - 100 ms

1 min - 100 min

Concurrency

1000 - 100,000

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Access Pattern

Writes and Reads

Reads

Queries

Selective

Unselective

Data Scope

Operational

Retrospective

End User

Customer

Data Scientist

Technology

NoSQL

MapReduce, MPP Database

Big Data Challenges

The major challenges associated with big data are as follows:
Capturing data
Curation
Storage
Searching
Sharing
Transfer
Analysis
Presentation
To fulfill the above challenges, organizations normally take the help of enterprise servers.

HADOOP - BIG DATA SOLUTIONS

Traditional Enterprise Approach
In this approach, an enterprise will have a computer to store and process big data. For storage purpose, the
programmers will take the help of their choice of database vendors such as Oracle, IBM, etc. In this approach, the
user interacts with the application, which in turn handles the part of data storage and analysis.
Big Data

Limitation
This approach works fine with those applications that process less voluminous data that can be accommodated by
standard database servers, or up to the limit of the processor that is processing the data. But when it comes to

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dealing with huge amounts of scalable data, it is a hectic task to process such data through a single database
bottleneck.

Googles Solution
Google solved this problem using an algorithm called MapReduce. This algorithm divides the task into small parts
and assigns them to many computers, and collects the results from them which when integrated, form the result
dataset.
Big Data

Hadoop
Using the solution provided by Google, Doug Cutting and his team developed an Open Source Project called
HADOOP.
Hadoop runs applications using the MapReduce algorithm, where the data is processed in parallel with others. In
short, Hadoop is used to develop applications that could perform complete statistical analysis on huge amounts of
data.
Big Data

HADOOP - INTRODUCTION TO HADOOP

Hadoop is an Apache open source framework written in java that allows distributed processing of large datasets
across clusters of computers using simple programming models. The Hadoop framework application works in an
environment that provides distributed storage and computation across clusters of computers. Hadoop is designed
to scale up from single server to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.

Hadoop Architecture
At its core, Hadoop has two major layers namely:
Processing/Computation layer MapReduce , and
Storage layer HadoopDistributedF ileSystem.
Big Data

MapReduce
MapReduce is a parallel programming model for writing distributed applications devised at Google for efficient
processing of large amounts of data multiterabytedata sets , on large clusters thousandsofnodes of
commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner. The MapReduce program runs on Hadoop which is an
Apache open-source framework.

Hadoop Distributed File System

The Hadoop Distributed File System HDF S is based on the Google File System GF S and provides a
distributed file system that is designed to run on commodity hardware. It has many similarities with existing

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distributed file systems. However, the differences from other distributed file systems are significant. It is highly
fault-tolerant and is designed to be deployed on low-cost hardware. It provides high throughput access to
application data and is suitable for applications having large datasets.
Apart from the above-mentioned two core components, Hadoop framework also includes the following two
modules:
Hadoop Common : These are Java libraries and utilities required by other Hadoop modules.
Hadoop YARN : This is a framework for job scheduling and cluster resource management.

How Does Hadoop Work?

It is quite expensive to build bigger servers with heavy configurations that handle large scale processing, but as an
alternative, you can tie together many commodity computers with single-CPU, as a single functional distributed
system and practically, the clustered machines can read the dataset in parallel and provide a much higher
throughput. Moreover, it is cheaper than one high-end server. So this is the first motivational factor behind using
Hadoop that it runs across clustered and low-cost machines.
Hadoop runs code across a cluster of computers. This process includes the following core tasks that Hadoop
performs:
Data is initially divided into directories and files. Files are divided into uniform sized blocks of 128M and
64M preferably128M.
These files are then distributed across various cluster nodes for further processing.
HDFS, being on top of the local file system, supervises the processing.
Blocks are replicated for handling hardware failure.
Checking that the code was executed successfully.
Performing the sort that takes place between the map and reduce stages.
Sending the sorted data to a certain computer.
Writing the debugging logs for each job.

Advantages of Hadoop
Hadoop framework allows the user to quickly write and test distributed systems. It is efficient, and it
automatic distributes the data and work across the machines and in turn, utilizes the underlying
parallelism of the CPU cores.
Hadoop does not rely on hardware to provide fault-tolerance and high availability F T HA, rather Hadoop
library itself has been designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer.
Servers can be added or removed from the cluster dynamically and Hadoop continues to operate without
interruption.
Another big advantage of Hadoop is that apart from being open source, it is compatible on all the platforms
since it is Java based.

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HADOOP - ENVIORNMENT SETUP

Hadoop is supported by GNU/Linux platform and its flavors. Therefore, we have to install a Linux operating
system for setting up Hadoop environment. In case you have an OS other than Linux, you can install a Virtualbox
software in it and have Linux inside the Virtualbox.

Pre-installation Setup
Before installing Hadoop into the Linux environment, we need to set up Linux using ssh SecureShell. Follow
the steps given below for setting up the Linux environment.

Creating a User
At the beginning, it is recommended to create a separate user for Hadoop to isolate Hadoop file system from Unix
file system. Follow the steps given below to create a user:
Open the root using the command su.
Create a user from the root account using the command useradd username.
Now you can open an existing user account using the command su username.
Open the Linux terminal and type the following commands to create a user.
$ su
password:
# useradd hadoop
# passwd hadoop
New passwd:
Retype new passwd

SSH Setup and Key Generation

SSH setup is required to do different operations on a cluster such as starting, stopping, distributed daemon shell
operations. To authenticate different users of Hadoop, it is required to provide public/private key pair for a
Hadoop user and share it with different users.
The following commands are used for generating a key value pair using SSH. Copy the public keys form
id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys, and provide the owner with read and write permissions to authorized_keys file
respectively.
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
$ chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Installing Java
Java is the main prerequisite for Hadoop. First of all, you should verify the existence of java in your system using
the command java -version. The syntax of java version command is given below.

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$ java -version

If everything is in order, it will give you the following output.

java version "1.7.0_71"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_71-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b02, mixed mode)

If java is not installed in your system, then follow the steps given below for installing java.

Step 1
Download java JDK < latestversion > X64.tar. gz by visiting the following link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads1880260.html.
Then jdk-7u71-linux-x64.tar.gz will be downloaded into your system.

Step 2
Generally you will find the downloaded java file in Downloads folder. Verify it and extract the jdk-7u71-linuxx64.gz file using the following commands.
$ cd Downloads/
$ ls
jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz
$ tar zxf jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz
$ ls
jdk1.7.0_71
jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz

Step 3
To make java available to all the users, you have to move it to the location /usr/local/. Open root, and type the
following commands.
$ su
password:
# mv jdk1.7.0_71 /usr/local/
# exit

Step 4
For setting up PATH and JAVA_HOME variables, add the following commands to ~/.bashrc file.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.7.0_71
export PATH=PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Now verify the java -version command from the terminal as explained above.
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Downloading Hadoop
Download and extract Hadoop 2.4.1 from Apache software foundation using the following commands.
$ su
password:
# cd /usr/local
# wget http://apache.claz.org/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.4.1/
hadoop-2.4.1.tar.gz
# tar xzf hadoop-2.4.1.tar.gz
# mv hadoop-2.4.1/* to hadoop/
# exit

Hadoop Operation Modes

Once you have downloaded Hadoop, you can operate your Hadoop cluster in one of the three supported modes:
Local/Standalone Mode : After downloading Hadoop in your system, by default, it is configured in a
standalone mode and can be run as a single java process.
Pseudo Distributed Mode : It is a distributed simulation on single machine. Each Hadoop daemon such
as hdfs, yarn, MapReduce etc., will run as a separate java process. This mode is useful for development.
Fully Distributed Mode : This mode is fully distributed with minimum two or more machines as a
cluster. We will come across this mode in detail in the coming chapters.

Installing Hadoop in Standalone Mode

Here we will discuss the installation of Hadoop 2.4.1 in standalone mode.
There are no daemons running and everything runs in a single JVM. Standalone mode is suitable for running
MapReduce programs during development, since it is easy to test and debug them.

Setting Up Hadoop
You can set Hadoop environment variables by appending the following commands to ~/.bashrc file.
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/hadoop

Before proceeding further, you need to make sure that Hadoop is working fine. Just issue the following command:
$ hadoop version

If everything is fine with your setup, then you should see the following result:
Hadoop 2.4.1
Subversion https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common -r 1529768
Compiled by hortonmu on 2013-10-07T06:28Z
Compiled with protoc 2.5.0

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It means your Hadoop's standalone mode setup is working fine. By default, Hadoop is configured to run in a
non-distributed mode on a single machine.

Example
Let's check a simple example of Hadoop. Hadoop installation delivers the following example MapReduce jar file,
which provides basic functionality of MapReduce and can be used for calculating, like Pi value, word counts in a
given list of files, etc.
$HADOOP_HOME/share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.2.0.jar

Let's have an input directory where we will push a few files and our requirement is to count the total number of
words in those files. To calculate the total number of words, we do not need to write our MapReduce, provided the
.jar file contains the implementation for word count. You can try other examples using the same .jar file; just issue
the following commands to check supported MapReduce functional programs by hadoop-mapreduce-examples2.2.0.jar file.
$ hadoop jar $HADOOP_HOME/share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduceexamples-2.2.0.jar

Step 1
Create temporary content files in the input directory. You can create this input directory anywhere you would like
to work.
$ mkdir input
$ cp $HADOOP_HOME/*.txt input
$ ls -l input

It will give the following files in your input directory:

total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15164 Feb 21 10:14 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
101 Feb 21 10:14 NOTICE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1366 Feb 21 10:14 README.txt

These files have been copied from the Hadoop installation home directory. For your experiment, you can have
different and large sets of files.

Step 2
Let's start the Hadoop process to count the total number of words in all the files available in the input directory,
as follows:
$ hadoop jar $HADOOP_HOME/share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduceexamples-2.2.0.jar
wordcount input ouput

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Step 3
Step-2 will do the required processing and save the output in output/part-r00000 file, which you can check by
using:
$cat output/*

It will list down all the words along with their total counts available in all the files available in the input directory.
"AS
4
"Contribution" 1
"Contributor" 1
"Derivative 1
"Legal 1
"License"
1
"License");
1
"Licensor"
1
"NOTICE
1
"Not
1
"Object"
1
"Source
1
"Work
1
"You"
1
"Your")
1
"[]"
1
"control"
1
"printed
1
"submitted"
1
(50%)
1
(BIS),
1
(C)
1
(Don't)
1
(ECCN)
1
(INCLUDING
2
(INCLUDING,
2
.............

Installing Hadoop in Pseudo Distributed Mode

Follow the steps given below to install Hadoop 2.4.1 in pseudo distributed mode.

Step 1: Setting Up Hadoop

You can set Hadoop environment variables by appending the following commands to ~/.bashrc file.
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/hadoop
export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME

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HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
YARN_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
HADOOP_COMMON_LIB_NATIVE_DIR=$HADOOP_HOME/lib/native
PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_HOME/sbin:$HADOOP_HOME/bin
HADOOP_INSTALL=$HADOOP_HOME

Now apply all the changes into the current running system.
$ source ~/.bashrc

Step 2: Hadoop Configuration

You can find all the Hadoop configuration files in the location $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop. It is required to
make changes in those configuration files according to your Hadoop infrastructure.
$ cd $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop

In order to develop Hadoop programs in java, you have to reset the java environment variables in hadoopenv.sh file by replacing JAVA_HOME value with the location of java in your system.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.7.0_71

The following are the list of files that you have to edit to configure Hadoop.
core-site.xml
The core-site.xml file contains information such as the port number used for Hadoop instance, memory
allocated for the file system, memory limit for storing the data, and size of Read/Write buffers.
Open the core-site.xml and add the following properties in between <configuration>, </configuration> tags.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>fs.default.name </name>
<value> hdfs://localhost:9000 </value>
</property>
</configuration>

hdfs-site.xml
The hdfs-site.xml file contains information such as the value of replication data, namenode path, and datanode
paths of your local file systems. It means the place where you want to store the Hadoop infrastructure.
Let us assume the following data.
dfs.replication (data replication value) = 1

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(In the below given path /hadoop/ is the user name.

hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode is the directory created by hdfs file system.)
namenode path = //home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode
(hadoopinfra/hdfs/datanode is the directory created by hdfs file system.)
datanode path = //home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/datanode

Open this file and add the following properties in between the <configuration> </configuration> tags in this file.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>dfs.replication</name>
<value>1</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>dfs.name.dir</name>
<value>file:///home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode </value>
</property>
<property>
<name>dfs.data.dir</name>
<value>file:///home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/datanode </value>
</property>
</configuration>

Note: In the above file, all the property values are user-defined and you can make changes according to your
Hadoop infrastructure.
yarn-site.xml
This file is used to configure yarn into Hadoop. Open the yarn-site.xml file and add the following properties in
between the <configuration>, </configuration> tags in this file.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services</name>
<value>mapreduce_shuffle</value>
</property>
</configuration>

mapred-site.xml
This file is used to specify which MapReduce framework we are using. By default, Hadoop contains a template of
yarn-site.xml. First of all, it is required to copy the file from mapred-site,xml.template to mapred-site.xml
file using the following command.

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$ cp mapred-site.xml.template mapred-site.xml

Open mapred-site.xml file and add the following properties in between the <configuration>,
</configuration>tags in this file.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>mapreduce.framework.name</name>
<value>yarn</value>
</property>
</configuration>

Verifying Hadoop Installation

The following steps are used to verify the Hadoop installation.

Step 1: Name Node Setup

Set up the namenode using the command hdfs namenode -format as follows.
$ cd ~
$ hdfs namenode -format

The expected result is as follows.

10/24/14 21:30:55 INFO namenode.NameNode: STARTUP_MSG:
/************************************************************
STARTUP_MSG: Starting NameNode
STARTUP_MSG:
host = localhost/192.168.1.11
STARTUP_MSG:
args = [-format]
STARTUP_MSG:
version = 2.4.1
...
...
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO common.Storage: Storage directory
/home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode has been successfully formatted.
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO namenode.NNStorageRetentionManager: Going to
retain 1 images with txid >= 0
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO util.ExitUtil: Exiting with status 0
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG:
/************************************************************
SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at localhost/192.168.1.11
************************************************************/

Step 2: Verifying Hadoop dfs

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The following command is used to start dfs. Executing this command will start your Hadoop file system.
$ start-dfs.sh

The expected output is as follows:

10/24/14 21:37:56
Starting namenodes on [localhost]
localhost: starting namenode, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop
2.4.1/logs/hadoop-hadoop-namenode-localhost.out
localhost: starting datanode, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop
2.4.1/logs/hadoop-hadoop-datanode-localhost.out
Starting secondary namenodes [0.0.0.0]

Step 3: Verifying Yarn Script

The following command is used to start the yarn script. Executing this command will start your yarn daemons.
$ start-yarn.sh

The expected output as follows:

starting yarn daemons
starting resourcemanager, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop
2.4.1/logs/yarn-hadoop-resourcemanager-localhost.out
localhost: starting nodemanager, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop
2.4.1/logs/yarn-hadoop-nodemanager-localhost.out

Step 4: Accessing Hadoop on Browser

The default port number to access Hadoop is 50070. Use the following url to get Hadoop services on browser.
http://localhost:50070/

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Step 5: Verify All Applications for Cluster

The default port number to access all applications of cluster is 8088. Use the following url to visit this service.
http://localhost:8088/

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HADOOP - HDFS OVERVIEW

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Hadoop File System was developed using distributed file system design. It is run on commodity hardware. Unlike
other distributed systems, HDFS is highly faulttolerant and designed using low-cost hardware.
HDFS holds very large amount of data and provides easier access. To store such huge data, the files are stored
across multiple machines. These files are stored in redundant fashion to rescue the system from possible data
losses in case of failure. HDFS also makes applications available to parallel processing.

Features of HDFS
It is suitable for the distributed storage and processing.
Hadoop provides a command interface to interact with HDFS.
The built-in servers of namenode and datanode help users to easily check the status of cluster.
Streaming access to file system data.
HDFS provides file permissions and authentication.

HDFS Architecture
Given below is the architecture of a Hadoop File System.
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HDFS follows the master-slave architecture and it has the following elements.

Namenode
The namenode is the commodity hardware that contains the GNU/Linux operating system and the namenode
software. It is a software that can be run on commodity hardware. The system having the namenode acts as the
master server and it does the following tasks:
Manages the file system namespace.
Regulates clients access to files.
It also executes file system operations such as renaming, closing, and opening files and directories.

Datanode
The datanode is a commodity hardware having the GNU/Linux operating system and datanode software. For
every node Commodityhardware/System in a cluster, there will be a datanode. These nodes manage the
data storage of their system.
Datanodes perform read-write operations on the file systems, as per client request.
They also perform operations such as block creation, deletion, and replication according to the instructions
of the namenode.

Block
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segments and/or stored in individual data nodes. These file segments are called as blocks. In other words, the
minimum amount of data that HDFS can read or write is called a Block. The default block size is 64MB, but it can
be increased as per the need to change in HDFS configuration.

Goals of HDFS
Fault detection and recovery : Since HDFS includes a large number of commodity hardware, failure of
components is frequent. Therefore HDFS should have mechanisms for quick and automatic fault detection
and recovery.
Huge datasets : HDFS should have hundreds of nodes per cluster to manage the applications having huge
datasets.
Hardware at data : A requested task can be done efficiently, when the computation takes place near the
data. Especially where huge datasets are involved, it reduces the network traffic and increases the
throughput.

HADOOP - HDFS OPERATIONS

Starting HDFS
Initially you have to format the configured HDFS file system, open namenode HDF Sserver, and execute the
following command.
$ hadoop namenode -format

After formatting the HDFS, start the distributed file system. The following command will start the namenode as
well as the data nodes as cluster.
$ start-dfs.sh

Listing Files in HDFS

After loading the information in the server, we can find the list of files in a directory, status of a file, using ls.
Given below is the syntax of ls that you can pass to a directory or a filename as an argument.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -ls <args>

Inserting Data into HDFS

Assume we have data in the file called file.txt in the local system which is ought to be saved in the hdfs file system.
Follow the steps given below to insert the required file in the Hadoop file system.

Step 1
You have to create an input directory.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/input

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Step 2
Transfer and store a data file from local systems to the Hadoop file system using the put command.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -put /home/file.txt /user/input

Step 3
You can verify the file using ls command.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/input

Retrieving Data from HDFS

Assume we have a file in HDFS called outfile. Given below is a simple demonstration for retrieving the required
file from the Hadoop file system.

Step 1
Initially, view the data from HDFS using cat command.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -cat /user/output/outfile

Step 2
Get the file from HDFS to the local file system using get command.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -get /user/output/ /home/hadoop_tp/

Shutting Down the HDFS

You can shut down the HDFS by using the following command.
$ stop-dfs.sh

HADOOP - COMMAND REFERENCE

HDFS Command Reference
There are many more commands in "$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs" than are demonstrated here,
although these basic operations will get you started. Running ./bin/hadoop dfs with no additional arguments will
list all the commands that can be run with the FsShell system. Furthermore, $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop
fs -help commandName will display a short usage summary for the operation in question, if you are stuck.
A table of all the operations is shown below. The following conventions are used for parameters:

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"<path>" means any file or directory name.

"<path>..." means one or more file or directory names.
"<file>" means any filename.
"<src>" and "<dest>" are path names in a directed operation.
"<localSrc>" and "<localDest>" are paths as above, but on the local file system.

All other files and path names refer to the objects inside HDFS.

Command

Description

-ls <path>

Lists the contents of the directory specified by path, showing the names, permissions,
owner, size and modification date for each entry.

-lsr <path>

Behaves like -ls, but recursively displays entries in all subdirectories of path.

-du <path>

Shows disk usage, in bytes, for all the files which match path; filenames are reported with
the full HDFS protocol prefix.

-dus <path>

Like -du, but prints a summary of disk usage of all files/directories in the path.

-mv <src><dest>

Moves the file or directory indicated by src

to dest, within HDFS.

-cp <src> <dest>

Copies the file or directory identified by src to dest, within HDFS.

-rm <path>

Removes the file or empty directory identified by path.

-rmr <path>

Removes the file or directory identified by path. Recursively deletes any child entries
i. e. , filesorsubdirectoriesofpath .

-put <localSrc>
<dest>

Copies the file or directory from the local file system identified by localSrc to dest within
the DFS.

-copyFromLocal
<localSrc> <dest>

Identical to -put

-moveFromLocal
<localSrc> <dest>

Copies the file or directory from the local file system identified by localSrc to dest within
HDFS, and then deletes the local copy on success.

-get [-crc] <src>

<localDest>

Copies the file or directory in HDFS identified by src to the local file system path
identified by localDest.

-getmerge <src>
<localDest>

Retrieves all files that match the path src in HDFS, and copies them to a single, merged
file in the local file system identified by localDest.

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-cat <filen-ame>

Displays the contents of filename on stdout.

-copyToLocal
<src> <localDest>

Identical to -get

-moveToLocal
<src> <localDest>

Works like -get, but deletes the HDFS copy on success.

-mkdir <path>

Creates a directory named path in HDFS.

Creates any parent directories in path that are missing e. g. , mkdir pinLinux.

-setrep [-R] [-w]

rep <path>

Sets the target replication factor for files identified by path to rep.

-touchz <path>

Creates a file at path containing the current time as a timestamp. Fails if a file already
exists at path, unless the file is already size 0.

-test -[ezd]
<path>

Returns 1 if path exists; has zero length; or is a directory or 0 otherwise.

-stat [format]
<path>

Prints information about path. Format is a string which accepts file size in blocks ,
filename , block size , replication , and modification date .

-tail [-f]
<file2name>

Shows the last 1KB of file on stdout.

-chmod [-R]
mode,mode,...
<path>...

Changes the file permissions associated with one or more objects identified by path....
Performs changes recursively with R. mode is a 3-digit octal mode, or {augo}+/-{rwxX}.
Assumes if no scope is specified and does not apply an umask.

-chown [-R]
[owner][:[group]]
<path>...

Sets the owning user and/or group for files or directories identified by path.... Sets owner
recursively if -R is specified.

chgrp [-R] group

<path>...

Sets the owning group for files or directories identified by path.... Sets group recursively
if -R is specified.

-help
<cmd-name>

Returns usage information for one of the commands listed above. You must omit the
leading '-' character in cmd.

T heactualreplicationfactorwillmovetowardthetargetovertime

HADOOP - MAPREDUCE
MapReduce is a framework using which we can write applications to process huge amounts of data, in parallel, on
large clusters of commodity hardware in a reliable manner.
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What is MapReduce?
MapReduce is a processing technique and a program model for distributed computing based on java. The
MapReduce algorithm contains two important tasks, namely Map and Reduce. Map takes a set of data and
converts it into another set of data, where individual elements are broken down into tuples key/valuepairs.
Secondly, reduce task, which takes the output from a map as an input and combines those data tuples into a
smaller set of tuples. As the sequence of the name MapReduce implies, the reduce task is always performed after
the map job.
The major advantage of MapReduce is that it is easy to scale data processing over multiple computing nodes.
Under the MapReduce model, the data processing primitives are called mappers and reducers. Decomposing a
data processing application into mappers and reducers is sometimes nontrivial. But, once we write an application
in the MapReduce form, scaling the application to run over hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of
machines in a cluster is merely a configuration change. This simple scalability is what has attracted many
programmers to use the MapReduce model.

The Algorithm
Generally MapReduce paradigm is based on sending the computer to where the data resides!
MapReduce program executes in three stages, namely map stage, shuffle stage, and reduce stage.
Map stage : The map or mappers job is to process the input data. Generally the input data is in the
form of file or directory and is stored in the Hadoop file system HDF S. The input file is passed to
the mapper function line by line. The mapper processes the data and creates several small chunks of
data.
Reduce stage : This stage is the combination of the Shuffle stage and the Reduce stage. The
Reducers job is to process the data that comes from the mapper. After processing, it produces a new
set of output, which will be stored in the HDFS.
During a MapReduce job, Hadoop sends the Map and Reduce tasks to the appropriate servers in the
cluster.
The framework manages all the details of data-passing such as issuing tasks, verifying task completion, and
copying data around the cluster between the nodes.
Most of the computing takes place on nodes with data on local disks that reduces the network traffic.
After completion of the given tasks, the cluster collects and reduces the data to form an appropriate result,
and sends it back to the Hadoop server.
Big Data

Inputs and Outputs JavaP erspective

The MapReduce framework operates on <key, value> pairs, that is, the framework views the input to the job as a
set of <key, value> pairs and produces a set of <key, value> pairs as the output of the job, conceivably of different
types.
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Writable interface. Additionally, the key classes have to implement the Writable-Comparable interface to facilitate
sorting by the framework. Input and Output types of a MapReduce job: Input <k1, v1> -> map -> <k2, v2>->
reduce -> <k3, v3>Output .
Input

Output

Map

<k1, v1>

list <

k2, v2 >

Reduce

<k2, listv2>

list <

k3, v3 >

Terminology
PayLoad - Applications implement the Map and the Reduce functions, and form the core of the job.
Mapper - Mapper maps the input key/value pairs to a set of intermediate key/value pair.
NamedNode - Node that manages the Hadoop Distributed File System HDF S.
DataNode - Node where data is presented in advance before any processing takes place.
MasterNode - Node where JobTracker runs and which accepts job requests from clients.
SlaveNode - Node where Map and Reduce program runs.
JobTracker - Schedules jobs and tracks the assign jobs to Task tracker.
Task Tracker - Tracks the task and reports status to JobTracker.
Job - A program is an execution of a Mapper and Reducer across a dataset.
Task - An execution of a Mapper or a Reducer on a slice of data.
Task Attempt - A particular instance of an attempt to execute a task on a SlaveNode.

Example Scenario
Given below is the data regarding the electrical consumption of an organization. It contains the monthly electrical
consumption and the annual average for various years.

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Avg

1979

23

23

43

24

25

26

26

26

26

25

26

25

1980

26

27

28

28

28

30

31

31

31

30

30

30

29

1981

31

32

32

32

33

34

35

36

36

34

34

34

34

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1984

39

38

39

39

39

41

42

43

40

39

38

38

40

1985

38

39

39

39

39

41

41

41

00

40

39

39

45

If the above data is given as input, we have to write applications to process it and produce results such as finding
the year of maximum usage, year of minimum usage, and so on. This is a walkover for the programmers with
finite number of records. They will simply write the logic to produce the required output, and pass the data to the
application written.
But, think of the data representing the electrical consumption of all the largescale industries of a particular state,
since its formation.
When we write applications to process such bulk data,
They will take a lot of time to execute.
There will be a heavy network traffic when we move data from source to network server and so on.
To solve these problems, we have the MapReduce framework.

Input Data
The above data is saved as sample.txtand given as input. The input file looks as shown below.
1979
1980
1981
1984
1985

23
26
31
39
38

23
27
32
38
39

2
28
32
39
39

43
28
32
39
39

24
28
33
39
39

25
30
34
41
41

26
31
35
42
41

26
31
36
43
41

26
31
36
40
00

26
30
34
39
40

25
30
34
38
39

26
30
34
38
39

25
29
34
40
45

Example Program
Given below is the program to the sample data using MapReduce framework.
package hadoop;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.*;
public class ProcessUnits
{
//Mapper class
public static class E_EMapper extends MapReduceBase implements

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Mapper<LongWritable ,/*Input key Type */

Text,
/*Input value Type*/
Text,
/*Output key Type*/
IntWritable>
/*Output value Type*/
{ //Map function
public void map(LongWritable key, Text value,
OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> output,
Reporter reporter) throws IOException
{
String line = value.toString();
String lasttoken = null;
StringTokenizer s = new StringTokenizer(line,"\t");
String year = s.nextToken();
while(s.hasMoreTokens()){lasttoken=s.nextToken();}
int avgprice = Integer.parseInt(lasttoken);
output.collect(new Text(year), new IntWritable(avgprice));
}
}
//Reducer class
public static class E_EReduce extends MapReduceBase implements
Reducer< Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable >
{ //Reduce function
public void reduce( Text key, Iterator <IntWritable> values,
OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> output, Reporter reporter)
IOException
{
int maxavg=30;
int val=Integer.MIN_VALUE;
while (values.hasNext())
{
if((val=values.next().get())>maxavg)
{
output.collect(key, new IntWritable(val));
}
}

throws

}
}
//Main function
public static void main(String args[])throws Exception
{
JobConf conf = new JobConf(Eleunits.class);
conf.setJobName("max_eletricityunits");
conf.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
conf.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);
conf.setMapperClass(E_EMapper.class);
conf.setCombinerClass(E_EReduce.class);
conf.setReducerClass(E_EReduce.class);

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conf.setInputFormat(TextInputFormat.class);
conf.setOutputFormat(TextOutputFormat.class);
FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(conf, new Path(args[0]));
FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(conf, new Path(args[1]));
JobClient.runJob(conf);
}
}

Save the above program as ProcessUnits.java. The compilation and execution of the program is explained
below.

Compilation and Execution of Process Units Program

Let us assume we are in the home directory of a Hadoop user e. g. /home/hadoop.
Follow the steps given below to compile and execute the above program.

Step 1
The following command is to create a directory to store the compiled java classes.
$ mkdir units

Step 2
Download Hadoop-core-1.2.1.jar, which is used to compile and execute the MapReduce program. Visit the
following link http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-core/1.2.1 to download the jar. Let
us assume the downloaded folder is /home/hadoop/.

Step 3
The following commands are used for compiling the ProcessUnits.java program and creating a jar for the
program.
$ javac -classpath hadoop-core-1.2.1.jar -d units ProcessUnits.java
$ jar -cvf units.jar -C units/ .

Step 4
The following command is used to create an input directory in HDFS.
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir input_dir

Step 5
The following command is used to copy the input file named sample.txtin the input directory of HDFS.

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$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -put /home/hadoop/sample.txt input_dir

Step 6
The following command is used to verify the files in the input directory.
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -ls input_dir/

Step 7
The following command is used to run the Eleunit_max application by taking the input files from the input
directory.
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop jar units.jar hadoop.ProcessUnits input_dir output_dir

Wait for a while until the file is executed. After execution, as shown below, the output will contain the number of
input splits, the number of Map tasks, the number of reducer tasks, etc.
INFO mapreduce.Job: Job job_1414748220717_0002
completed successfully
14/10/31 06:02:52
INFO mapreduce.Job: Counters: 49
File System Counters
FILE:
FILE:
FILE:
FILE:
FILE:
HDFS:
HDFS:
HDFS:
HDFS:
HDFS:

Number
Number
Number
Number
Number
Number
Number
Number
Number
Number

of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of

bytes read=61
bytes written=279400
read operations=0
large read operations=0
write operations=0
bytes read=546
bytes written=40
read operations=9
large read operations=0
write operations=2 Job Counters

Launched map tasks=2

Launched reduce tasks=1
Data-local map tasks=2
Total time spent by all maps in occupied slots (ms)=146137
Total time spent by all reduces in occupied slots (ms)=441
Total time spent by all map tasks (ms)=14613
Total time spent by all reduce tasks (ms)=44120
Total vcore-seconds taken by all map tasks=146137
Total vcore-seconds taken by all reduce tasks=44120
Total megabyte-seconds taken by all map tasks=149644288

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Total megabyte-seconds taken by all reduce tasks=45178880

Map-Reduce Framework
Map input records=5
Map output records=5
Map output bytes=45
Map output materialized bytes=67
Input split bytes=208
Combine input records=5
Combine output records=5
Reduce input groups=5
Reduce shuffle bytes=6
Reduce input records=5
Reduce output records=5
Spilled Records=10
Shuffled Maps =2
Failed Shuffles=0
Merged Map outputs=2
GC time elapsed (ms)=948
CPU time spent (ms)=5160
Physical memory (bytes) snapshot=47749120
Virtual memory (bytes) snapshot=2899349504
Total committed heap usage (bytes)=277684224
File Output Format Counters
Bytes Written=40

Step 8
The following command is used to verify the resultant files in the output folder.
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -ls output_dir/

Step 9
The following command is used to see the output in Part-00000 file. This file is generated by HDFS.
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -cat output_dir/part-00000

Below is the output generated by the MapReduce program.

1981
1984
1985

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Step 10
The following command is used to copy the output folder from HDFS to the local file system for analyzing.
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -cat output_dir/part-00000/bin/hadoop dfs get output_dir
/home/hadoop

Important Commands
All Hadoop commands are invoked by the $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop command. Running the Hadoop
script without any arguments prints the description for all commands.
Usage : hadoop [--config confdir] COMMAND
The following table lists the options available and their description.

Options

Description

namenode -format

Formats the DFS filesystem.

secondarynamenode

Runs the DFS secondary namenode.

namenode

Runs the DFS namenode.

datanode

Runs a DFS datanode.

dfsadmin

Runs a DFS admin client.

mradmin

Runs a Map-Reduce admin client.

fsck

Runs a DFS filesystem checking utility.

fs

Runs a generic filesystem user client.

balancer

Runs a cluster balancing utility.

oiv

Applies the offline fsimage viewer to an fsimage.

fetchdt

Fetches a delegation token from the NameNode.

jobtracker

Runs the MapReduce job Tracker node.

pipes

Runs a Pipes job.

tasktracker

Runs a MapReduce task Tracker node.

historyserver

Runs job history servers as a standalone daemon.

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job

Manipulates the MapReduce jobs.

queue

Gets information regarding JobQueues.

version

Prints the version.

jar <jar>

Runs a jar file.

distcp <srcurl> <desturl>

Copies file or directories recursively.

distcp2 <srcurl> <desturl>

DistCp version 2.

archive -archiveName NAME

-p

Creates a hadoop archive.

<parent path> <src>* <dest>

classpath

Prints the class path needed to get the Hadoop jar and the required
libraries.

daemonlog

Get/Set the log level for each daemon

How to Interact with MapReduce Jobs

Usage: hadoop job [GENERIC_OPTIONS]
The following are the Generic Options available in a Hadoop job.

GENERIC_OPTIONS

Description

-submit <job-file>

Submits the job.

status <job-id>

Prints the map and reduce completion percentage and all job counters.

counter <job-id> <group-name>

<countername>

Prints the counter value.

-kill <job-id>

Kills the job.

-events <job-id> <fromevent-#>

<#-of-events>

Prints the events' details received by jobtracker for the given range.

-history [all] <jobOutputDir> history < jobOutputDir>

Prints job details, failed and killed tip details. More details about the job
such as successful tasks and task attempts made for each task can be
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-list[all]

Displays all jobs. -list displays only jobs which are yet to complete.

-kill-task <task-id>

Kills the task. Killed tasks are NOT counted against failed attempts.

-fail-task <task-id>

Fails the task. Failed tasks are counted against

failed attempts.

set-priority <job-id> <priority>

Changes the priority of the job. Allowed priority values are

VERY_HIGH, HIGH, NORMAL, LOW, VERY_LOW

To see the status of job

$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop job -status <JOB-ID>
e.g.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop job -status job_201310191043_0004

To see the history of job output-dir

$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop job -history <DIR-NAME>
e.g.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop job -history /user/expert/output

To kill the job

$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop job -kill <JOB-ID>
e.g.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop job -kill job_201310191043_0004

HADOOP - STREAMING
Hadoop streaming is a utility that comes with the Hadoop distribution. This utility allows you to create and run
Map/Reduce jobs with any executable or script as the mapper and/or the reducer.

Example Using Python

For Hadoop streaming, we are considering the word-count problem. Any job in Hadoop must have two phases:
mapper and reducer. We have written codes for the mapper and the reducer in python script to run it under
Hadoop. One can also write the same in Perl and Ruby.

Mapper Phase Code

!/usr/bin/python
import sys

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Input takes from standard input for myline in sys.stdin:

Remove whitespace either side myline = myline.strip()
Break the line into words words = myline.split()
Iterate the words list for myword in words:
Write the results to standard output print '%s\t%s' % (myword, 1)

Make sure this file has execution permission chmod + x/home/expert/hadoop 1.2.1/mapper. py.

Reducer Phase Code

#!/usr/bin/python
from operator import itemgetter
import sys
current_word = ""
current_count = 0
word = ""
# Input takes from standard input for myline in sys.stdin:
# Remove whitespace either side myline = myline.strip()
# Split the input we got from mapper.py word, count = myline.split('\t', 1)
# Convert count variable to integer
try:
count = int(count)
except ValueError:
# Count was not a number, so silently ignore this line continue
if current_word == word:
current_count += count
else:
if current_word:
# Write result to standard output print '%s\t%s' % (current_word, current_count)
current_count = count
current_word = word
# Do not forget to output the last word if needed!
if current_word == word:
print '%s\t%s' % (current_word, current_count)

Save the mapper and reducer codes in mapper.py and reducer.py in Hadoop home directory. Make sure these files
have execution permission chmod + xmapper. pyandchmod + xreducer. py. As python is indentation
sensitive so the same code can be download from the below link.

Execution of WordCount Program

$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop jar contrib/streaming/hadoop-streaming-1.
2.1.jar \
-input input_dirs \
-output output_dir \
-mapper <path/mapper.py \
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Where "\" is used for line continuation for clear readability.

For Example,
./bin/hadoop jar contrib/streaming/hadoop-streaming-1.2.1.jar -input myinput -output
myoutput -mapper /home/expert/hadoop-1.2.1/mapper.py -reducer /home/expert/hadoop1.2.1/reducer.py

How Streaming Works

In the above example, both the mapper and the reducer are python scripts that read the input from standard
input and emit the output to standard output. The utility will create a Map/Reduce job, submit the job to an
appropriate cluster, and monitor the progress of the job until it completes.
When a script is specified for mappers, each mapper task will launch the script as a separate process when the
mapper is initialized. As the mapper task runs, it converts its inputs into lines and feed the lines to the standard
input ST DIN of the process. In the meantime, the mapper collects the line-oriented outputs from the standard
output ST DOUT of the process and converts each line into a key/value pair, which is collected as the output of
the mapper. By default, the prefix of a line up to the first tab character is the key and the rest of the line
excludingthetabcharacter will be the value. If there is no tab character in the line, then the entire line is
considered as the key and the value is null. However, this can be customized, as per one need.
When a script is specified for reducers, each reducer task will launch the script as a separate process, then the
reducer is initialized. As the reducer task runs, it converts its input key/values pairs into lines and feeds the lines
to the standard input ST DIN of the process. In the meantime, the reducer collects the line-oriented outputs
from the standard output ST DOUT of the process, converts each line into a key/value pair, which is collected
as the output of the reducer. By default, the prefix of a line up to the first tab character is the key and the rest of
the line excludingthetabcharacter is the value. However, this can be customized as per specific
requirements.

Important Commands
Parameters

Options

Description

-input directory/file-name

Required

Input location for mapper.

-output directory-name

Required

Output location for reducer.

-mapper executable or
script or JavaClassName

Required

Mapper executable.

-reducer executable or
script or JavaClassName

Required

Reducer executable.

-file file-name

Optional

Makes the mapper, reducer, or combiner executable available locally

on the compute nodes.

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-inputformat
JavaClassName

Optional

Class you supply should return key/value pairs of Text class. If not
specified, TextInputFormat is used as the default.

-outputformat
JavaClassName

Optional

Class you supply should take key/value pairs of Text class. If not
specified, TextOutputformat is used as the default.

-partitioner
JavaClassName

Optional

Class that determines which reduce a key is sent to.

-combiner
streamingCommand or
JavaClassName

Optional

Combiner executable for map output.

-cmdenv name=value

Optional

Passes the environment variable to streaming commands.

-inputreader

Optional

For backwards-compatibility: specifies a record reader class

insteadofaninputformatclass.

-verbose

Optional

Verbose output.

-lazyOutput

Optional

Creates output lazily. For example, if the output format is based on

FileOutputFormat, the output file is created only on the first call to
output.collect orContext. write .

-numReduceTasks

Optional

Specifies the number of reducers.

-mapdebug

Optional

Script to call when map task fails.

-reducedebug

Optional

Script to call when reduce task fails.

HADOOP - MULTI NODE CLUSTER

This chapter explains the setup of the Hadoop Multi-Node cluster on a distributed environment.
As the whole cluster cannot be demonstrated, we are explaining the Hadoop cluster environment using three
systems onemasterandtwoslaves ; given below are their IP addresses.
Hadoop Master: 192.168.1.15 hadoop master

Hadoop Slave: 192.168.1.16 hadoop slave 1

Hadoop Slave: 192.168.1.17 hadoop slave 2

Follow the steps given below to have Hadoop Multi-Node cluster setup.

Installing Java

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Java is the main prerequisite for Hadoop. First of all, you should verify the existence of java in your system using
java -version. The syntax of java version command is given below.
$ java -version

If everything works fine it will give you the following output.

java version "1.7.0_71"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_71-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b02, mixed mode)

If java is not installed in your system, then follow the given steps for installing java.

Step 1
Download java (JDK - X64.tar.gz) by visiting the following link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase
/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
Then jdk-7u71-linux-x64.tar.gz will be downloaded into your system.

Step 2
Generally you will find the downloaded java file in Downloads folder. Verify it and extract the jdk-7u71-linuxx64.gz file using the following commands.
$ cd Downloads/
$ ls
jdk-7u71-Linux-x64.gz
$ tar zxf jdk-7u71-Linux-x64.gz
$ ls
jdk1.7.0_71 jdk-7u71-Linux-x64.gz

Step 3
To make java available to all the users, you have to move it to the location /usr/local/. Open the root, and type
the following commands.
$ su
password:
# mv jdk1.7.0_71 /usr/local/
# exit

Step 4
For setting up PATH and JAVA_HOME variables, add the following commands to ~/.bashrc file.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.7.0_71

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export PATH=PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Now verify the java -version command from the terminal as explained above. Follow the above process and
install java in all your cluster nodes.

Creating User Account

Create a system user account on both master and slave systems to use the Hadoop installation.
# useradd hadoop
# passwd hadoop

Mapping the nodes

You have to edit hosts file in /etc/ folder on all nodes, specify the IP address of each system followed by their
host names.
# vi /etc/hosts
enter the following lines in the /etc/hosts file.
192.168.1.109 hadoop-master
192.168.1.145 hadoop-slave-1
192.168.56.1 hadoop-slave-2

Configuring Key Based Login

Setup ssh in every node such that they can communicate with one another without any prompt for password.
#
$
$
$
$
$
$

su hadoop
ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub tutorialspoint@hadoop-master
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub hadoop_tp1@hadoop-slave-1
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub hadoop_tp2@hadoop-slave-2
chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
exit

Installing Hadoop
In the Master server, download and install Hadoop using the following commands.
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

mkdir /opt/hadoop
cd /opt/hadoop/
wget http://apache.mesi.com.ar/hadoop/common/hadoop-1.2.1/hadoop-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf hadoop-1.2.0.tar.gz
mv hadoop-1.2.0 hadoop
chown -R hadoop /opt/hadoop
cd /opt/hadoop/hadoop/

Configuring Hadoop
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You have to configure Hadoop server by making the following changes as given below.

core-site.xml
Open the core-site.xml file and edit it as shown below.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>fs.default.name</name>
<value>hdfs://hadoop-master:9000/</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>dfs.permissions</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>
</configuration>

hdfs-site.xml
Open the hdfs-site.xml file and edit it as shown below.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>dfs.data.dir</name>
<value>/opt/hadoop/hadoop/dfs/name/data</value>
<final>true</final>
</property>
<property>
<name>dfs.name.dir</name>
<value>/opt/hadoop/hadoop/dfs/name</value>
<final>true</final>
</property>
<property>
<name>dfs.replication</name>
<value>1</value>
</property>
</configuration>

mapred-site.xml
Open the mapred-site.xml file and edit it as shown below.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>mapred.job.tracker</name>

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<value>hadoop-master:9001</value>
</property>
</configuration>

hadoop-env.sh
Open the hadoop-env.sh file and edit JAVA_HOME, HADOOP_CONF_DIR, and HADOOP_OPTS as shown
below.
Note: Set the JAVA_HOME as per your system configuration.
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_17 export HADOOP_OPTS=-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/opt/hadoop/hadoop/conf

Installing Hadoop on Slave Servers

Install Hadoop on all the slave servers by following the given commands.
#
$
$
$

su hadoop
cd /opt/hadoop
scp -r hadoop hadoop-slave-1:/opt/hadoop
scp -r hadoop hadoop-slave-2:/opt/hadoop

Configuring Hadoop on Master Server

Open the master server and configure it by following the given commands.
# su hadoop
$ cd /opt/hadoop/hadoop

Configuring Master Node

$ vi etc/hadoop/masters
hadoop-master

Configuring Slave Node

$ vi etc/hadoop/slaves
hadoop-slave-1
hadoop-slave-2

Format Name Node on Hadoop Master

# su hadoop
$ cd /opt/hadoop/hadoop

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$ bin/hadoop namenode format

11/10/14 10:58:07 INFO namenode.NameNode: STARTUP_MSG:
/************************************************************
STARTUP_MSG: Starting NameNode
STARTUP_MSG: host = hadoop-master/192.168.1.109
STARTUP_MSG: args = [-format]
STARTUP_MSG: version = 1.2.0
STARTUP_MSG: build = https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-1.2
-r 1479473; compiled by 'hortonfo' on Mon May 6 06:59:37 UTC 2013
STARTUP_MSG: java = 1.7.0_71
************************************************************/ 11/10/14 10:58:08 INFO
util.GSet: Computing capacity for map BlocksMap editlog=/opt/hadoop/hadoop/dfs/name
/current/edits
.
.
. 11/10/14 10:58:08 INFO common.Storage: Storage directory
/opt/hadoop/hadoop/dfs/name has been successfully formatted. 11/10/14 10:58:08 INFO
namenode.NameNode:
SHUTDOWN_MSG: /************************************************************
SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at hadoop-master/192.168.1.15
************************************************************/

Starting Hadoop Services

The following command is to start all the Hadoop services on the Hadoop-Master.
$ cd $HADOOP_HOME/sbin
$ start-all.sh

Adding a New DataNode in the Hadoop Cluster

Given below are the steps to be followed for adding new nodes to a Hadoop cluster.

Networking
Add new nodes to an existing Hadoop cluster with some appropriate network configuration. Assume the following
network configuration.
For New node Configuration:
IP address : 192.168.1.103
netmask : 255.255.255.0
hostname : slave3.in

Adding User and SSH Access

Add a User
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On a new node, add "hadoop" user and set password of Hadoop user to "hadoop123" or anything you want by
using the following commands.
useradd hadoop
passwd hadoop

Setup Password less connectivity from master to new slave.

Execute the following on the master

mkdir -p $HOME/.ssh
chmod 700 $HOME/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -P '' -f $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa
cat $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 644 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
Copy the public key to new slave node in hadoop user $HOME directory
scp $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub hadoop@192.168.1.103:/home/hadoop/

Execute the following on the slaves

Login to hadoop. If not, login to hadoop user.
su hadoop ssh -X hadoop@192.168.1.103

Copy the content of public key into file "$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys" and then change the permission for
the same by executing the following commands.
cd $HOME
mkdir -p $HOME/.ssh
chmod 700 $HOME/.ssh
cat id_rsa.pub >>$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 644 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys

Check ssh login from the master machine. Now check if you can ssh to the new node without a password from the
master.
ssh hadoop@192.168.1.103 or hadoop@slave3

Set Hostname of New Node

You can set hostname in file /etc/sysconfig/network
On new slave3 machine
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=slave3.in

To make the changes effective, either restart the machine or run hostname command to a new machine with the
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respective hostname restartisagoodoption.

On slave3 node machine:
hostname slave3.in
Update /etc/hosts on all machines of the cluster with the following lines:
192.168.1.102 slave3.in slave3

Now try to ping the machine with hostnames to check whether it is resolving to IP or not.
On new node machine:
ping master.in

Start the DataNode on New Node

Start the datanode daemon manually using $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh script. It will
automatically contact the master NameNode and join the cluster. We should also add the new node to the
conf/slaves file in the master server. The script-based commands will recognize the new node.

Login to new node

su hadoop or ssh -X hadoop@192.168.1.103

Start HDFS on a newly added slave node by using the following command
./bin/hadoop-daemon.sh start datanode

Check the output of jps command on a new node. It looks as follows.

$ jps
7141 DataNode
10312 Jps

Removing a DataNode from the Hadoop Cluster

We can remove a node from a cluster on the fly, while it is running, without any data loss. HDFS provides a
decommissioning feature, which ensures that removing a node is performed safely. To use it, follow the steps as
given below:

Step 1
Login to master.
Login to master machine user where Hadoop is installed.

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$ su hadoop

Step 2
Change cluster configuration.
An exclude file must be configured before starting the cluster. Add a key named dfs.hosts.exclude to our
$HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/hdfs-site.xml file. The value associated with this key provides the full path
to a file on the NameNode's local file system which contains a list of machines which are not permitted to connect
to HDFS.
For example, add these lines to etc/hadoop/hdfs-site.xml file.
<property>
<name>dfs.hosts.exclude</name>
<value>/home/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/hdfs_exclude.txt</value>
<description>DFS exclude</description>
</property>

Step 3
Determine hosts to decommission.
Each machine to be decommissioned should be added to the file identified by the hdfs_exclude.txt, one domain
name per line. This will prevent them from connecting to the NameNode. Content of the "/home/hadoop
/hadoop-1.2.1/hdfs_exclude.txt" file is shown below, if you want to remove DataNode2.
slave2.in

Step 4
Force configuration reload.
Run the command "$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes" without the quotes.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes

This will force the NameNode to re-read its configuration, including the newly updated excludes file. It will
decommission the nodes over a period of time, allowing time for each node's blocks to be replicated onto
machines which are scheduled to remain active.
On slave2.in, check the jps command output. After some time, you will see the DataNode process is shutdown
automatically.

Step 5
Shutdown nodes.

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After the decommission process has been completed, the decommissioned hardware can be safely shut down for
maintenance. Run the report command to dfsadmin to check the status of decommission. The following
command will describe the status of the decommission node and the connected nodes to the cluster.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop dfsadmin -report

Step 6
Edit excludes file again.
Once the machines have been decommissioned, they can be removed from the excludes file. Running
"$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes" again will read the excludes file back into the
NameNode; allowing the DataNodes to rejoin the cluster after the maintenance has been completed, or additional
capacity is needed in the cluster again, etc.
Special Note: If the above process is followed and the tasktracker process is still running on the node, it needs to
be shut down. One way is to disconnect the machine as we did in the above steps. The Master will recognize the
process automatically and will declare as dead. There is no need to follow the same process for removing the
tasktracker because it is NOT much crucial as compared to the DataNode. DataNode contains the data that you
want to remove safely without any loss of data.
The tasktracker can be run/shutdown on the fly by the following command at any point of time.
$ $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh stop tasktracker $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
start tasktracker

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