Fast data ingestion, serving, and analytics in the Hadoop ecosystem have forced developers and architects to choose solutions using the least common denominator—either fast analytics at the cost of slow data ingestion or fast data ingestion at the cost of slow analytics. There is an answer to this problem. With the Apache Kudu column-oriented data store, you can easily perform fast analytics on fast data. This practical guide shows you how. Begun as an internal project at Cloudera, Kudu is an open source solution compatible with many data processing frameworks in the Hadoop environment. In this book, current and former solutions professionals from Cloudera provide use cases, examples, best practices, and sample code to help you get up to speed with Kudu. Explore Kudu’s high-level design, including how it spreads data across servers Fully administer a Kudu cluster, enable security, and add or remove nodes Learn Kudu’s client-side APIs, including how to integrate Apache Impala, Spark, and other frameworks for data manipulation Examine Kudu’s schema design, including basic concepts and primitives necessary to make your project successful Explore case studies for using Kudu for real-time IoT analytics, predictive modeling, and in combination with another storage engine

HBase is a remarkable tool for indexing mass volumes of data, but getting started with this distributed database and its ecosystem can be daunting. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to architect, design, and deploy your own HBase applications by examining real-world solutions. Along with HBase principles and cluster deployment guidelines, this book includes in-depth case studies that demonstrate how large companies solved specific use cases with HBase. Authors Jean-Marc Spaggiari and Kevin O’Dell also provide draft solutions and code examples to help you implement your own versions of those use cases, from master data management (MDM) and document storage to near real-time event processing. You’ll also learn troubleshooting techniques to help you avoid common deployment mistakes. Learn exactly what HBase does, what its ecosystem includes, and how to set up your environment Explore how real-world HBase instances were deployed and put into production Examine documented use cases for tracking healthcare claims, digital advertising, data management, and product quality Understand how HBase works with tools and techniques such as Spark, Kafka, MapReduce, and the Java API Learn how to identify the causes and understand the consequences of the most common HBase issues