Big Data Analytics

Isara Anantavrasilp

Lecture 6: Installing Hadoop Distribution

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 Hadoop Distribution
• Hadoop distribution: Cloudera QuickStart
• Platform: Virtual Box
• System Requirements
– 64-bit host OS and a virtualization that support
64-bit guest OS
– RAM for VM: 4 GB
– HDD: 20 GB

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 Installing Cloudera QuickStart
• Download size: ~5.5 GB
• Download links
– https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Select package corresponding to your host system

– https://downloads.cloudera.com/demo_vm/virtu
albox/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.13.0-0-
virtualbox.zip

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VirtualBox Download

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 Installing Cloudera QuickStart
• Install VirtualBox
• Unzip Cloudera VM
• Start VirtualBox
• Import Appliance (Virtual Machine)
• Launch Cloudera VM

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Start Virtual Box

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Import Appliance

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Setting Up the VM

Select Bidirectional
to share clipboard

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Setting Up the VM

8GB of RAM is
recommended

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Setting Up the VM

At least 2 CPUs is
recommended

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Launch Cloudera VM

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 Launch Cloudera VM

Login: cloudera Password: cloudera

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Launch Cloudera VM

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 Troubleshooting
• The VM does not start:
AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS (or by
the host OS) (VERR_SVM_DISABLED).

Make sure that your BIOS allows virtualization

• VM freezes when starting:

It does not freeze, just wait until it finishes
loading

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 Let’s check if we can run Hadoop
• Open terminal

• Type in the following command

hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-
mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples.jar

• It should list available commands

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 Word Count
• Now let’s try
hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-
mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-
examples.jar wordcount
• Result
Usage: wordcount <in> [<in>...] <out>
[cloudera@quickstart ~]$
• This is word-counting example
• Let’s count some words
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 Word Files
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/6/6.006/s08/lec
turenotes/files/t8.shakespeare.txt

• The Project Gutenberg EBook of The

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
http://norvig.com/big.txt

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 Download and Save
• Open web browser

• Type in or paste the URL

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 Download and Save
• After the page is loaded,
save the file
• Default destination is
~/Download

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 Let’s count the words
• Open terminal and type
hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-
mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-
examples.jar wordcount big.txt out

• It will fail
InvalidInputException: Input path
does not exist:

• This is because the file is not yet in HDFS!

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 Local File System and HDFS
• Hadoop does not store everything in HDFS
• Map results are normally stored in nodes’ local
file systems
– Map results are intermediate results which will be
sent to reduce task later
– They do not need redundancy provided by HDFS
– If a map node fails, Hadoop task manager simply
resend the task to another node
• Hadoop HDFS stores
– Input data: We must put our data into HDFS first
– Reduce output data: Result of the entire process

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 Copy the data into HDFS
• Open the terminal and go to Downloads
directory
cd Downloads/

• List the files with ls or ls –al

• You should see your downloaded files

[cloudera@quickstart Downloads]$ ls
big.txt t8.shakespeare.txt

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 Copy the data into HDFS
• Copy the file from local file system to HDFS
hadoop fs -copyFromLocal big.txt

Command: Command Option:

File system Copy file from local FS to HDFS
commands

• Check whether the file is copied correctly

hadoop fs –ls

• Now, let’s try to copy big.txt to HDFS again

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 Other HDFS Command Options
• List the files in current directory
hadoop fs –ls

• Copy files within HDFS

hadoop fs -cp big.txt big2.txt

• Copy files back to local file system

hadoop fs -copyToLocal big2.txt

• Remove files in HDFS

hadoop fs -rm big2.txt

• Show all command options

hadoop fs
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 Let’s count the words (again)
• Open terminal and type
hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-
mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-
examples.jar wordcount big.txt out
• This time it should run
• While it is running, Hadoop will show progress
including completed map and reduce tasks

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 Copy the result to local FS
• The output is stored in directory out in HDFS

• You can list the contents inside the directory with:

hadoop fs –ls out

• Then copy the result file back with

hadoop fs –copyToLocal out/part-r-
00000

• Now see the contents of the result:

more part-r-00000
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 What have we done so far?
• We copied files to and from HDFS
• We have run some HDFS file commands
• We have executed MapReduce program
– The data to be operated is on HDFS
– But the program is on the local file system
– WordCount is written in Java but it can be any
language

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 Prepare Compiling Environment
• Most of environment parameters are already set in
Cloudera QuickStart, to check type:
printenv

• The following environment should be there:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_67-cloudera
PATH=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_67-cloudera/bin

• What we have to do is to set is

export
HADOOP_CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar

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 Compiling Word Count
• To compile:
hadoop com.sun.tools.javac.Main
WordCount.java
• The result will be multiple class files

• We have to pack them into one JAR file

jar cf wc.jar WordCount*.class
• Result will be a JAR file: wc.jar

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 Running Word Count
• Counting word in the big.txt file
hadoop jar wc.jar WordCount big.txt
out2
• You should have the same result as previous
example
• The result is stored in out2 directory
• Let’s copy to local file system
hadoop fs -copyToLocal out2

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 Hadoop Jobs
• Hadoop MapReduce process is categorized as
a job
• A job consists of tasks
– Map tasks
– Reduce tasks
– Tasks are scheduled by YARN
– If a task fails, it will be automatically re-scheduled
in another node

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 Input Splits
• MapReduce separates entire data into smaller
chunks or splits and feed into map tasks (and
later to reduce tasks)
• Splits allow the tasks to be distributed among
nodes
• Best size of each splits is the size of a HDFS block
– Too small, too much scheduling overhead
– Too large, one split is separated into many nodes
• Hadoop tries to assign map task to the node
where the data already resides
– locality optimization
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 Distributed and Combining Tasks
• A job is split into tasks and tasks are distributed to map
nodes
– Tasks are processed in parallel
• When map tasks are done, the results will be sent to
reducer(s)
– There can be more than one reducers
– Could also be zero reducer if the tasks are simple and can
be done as map tasks
• If there are more than one reducers, the map tasks
must partition the outputs
– Partition (divide) the outputs into different keys
– Send different keys to different reducers

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