Hadoop: The Definitive Guide is the ideal guide for anyone who wants to know about the Apache Hadoop software framework and all that can be done with it. Are you ready to find out all that can be done to unleash the true potential of your data? With the help of this ideal tool, you will be able to build as well as maintain trusted and scalable distributed systems. This guide is the ideal tool for any programmer who wants to analyze variant sizes of datasets. It is also beneficial for those administrators, who intend on setting up and running Hadoop clusters.The book also includes case studies that show you just how Hadoop can be used to solve a wide range of problems. This updated edition is also inclusive of all the recent changes that have been made to Apache Hadoop. It shows you how to run distributed computations using Map Reduce. It also offers you a rather flexible execution model.The book shows you just how to make the most of HBase, when it comes to unstructured and structured data. It also guides you on how you can benefit from Zookeeper, when building distributed systems.The third edition of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide has been published by Shroff/O'Reilly, in the year 2012 and is available in paperback.Key Features The book is inclusive of all the latest updates that have been made to the Apache Hadoop software framework. Readers are shown just how they can make the most of the data that they have with them, using Hadoop.