Hadoop: The Definitive Guide: Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale

This may have been a great book at one time, but it isn't anymore. The content is badly outdated with deprecated commands. The example code can't be installed and it doesn't appear that the author has done anything in the book's github for the past 3 years. Issues have been reported but every one of them is open and unresolved. Beginners should start with an online Hadoop tutorial instead of trying to debug this book.

Very comprehensive and well developed book that is a great introduction to large data management. If you want to enter this field of computing, this is the reference to get. It covers all the important bases in only 700 pages.There is a catch here, the cost of the hardware is prohibitive and can easily exceed $70,000. So, companies that are using large distributed systems that operate using Hadoop are generally closed shops and Catch 22 applies. You will have to build or borrow a small Hadoop system and learn your way around it to be able to demonstrate your expertise to get hired in a company that uses this.However, this book can ease your way into Hadoop computing and I highly recommend it.

Nice update for an already great book. As other reviews have already mentioned, if you're new to Hadoop, you'll probably need to read a few chapters in order to really get a good picture of what Hadoop is, and how it works. This is not necessarily a problem with the book, but just the nature of the beast when learning as complex as Hadoop. If you're new to Hadoop, take the time to work through the first few chapters, and maybe expect to come back and re-read parts later. If you're an experienced engineer who is looking to get up-to-speed with what has changed in recent versions, you'll definitely find what you're looking for here.I appreciate that this book covers high-level concepts as well as dives deep into the technical details that you will need to know for the design, implementation and day-to-day running of Hadoop and its various associated technologies.

I spend a lot of time working on Hadoop. I am constantly referring to this book. Excellent source of material. Well written and rather large, but so is the Hadoop ecosystem.Even though this book was printed in 2015, it is very applicable to today's Hadoop systems.

Very full treatment of Hadoop but NOT a simple read so don't buy this if you want a beginners guide. I have enough test hardware and expertise to set up a couple virtual stacks and used this book to then setup a Hadoop cluster and various web interfaces.Within this limit a very good book.

This book is so good that it forced it me to write my first book review on Amazon :). Everything is so clearly described and thoroughly explained both for Hadoop and related Apache projects. Read (and re-read) at least the whole section I thoroughly, it is very important for the understanding of the rest of the book.

Informative

Good book. Very fundamental. Just cover to much, not good enough for specialized field such as programming or administrative. But good for anyone who likes the overall knowledge.

arrived on time. product was as advertised.

Great book. Found it invaluible when learning about Hadoop

THE definitive guide on Hadoop. Theres a reason its pretty much the standard on Hadoop at this point.Not sure if there is a 5th edition out soon, so investigate that soon before buying this.

Excellent book to learn Hadoop.

Working in the big data domain, especially in the open source area requires that one has the required and correct technical knowledge to be able to analyze and solve problems as they arise. I find this book quite covering with respect to these aspects. I am not finished with it yet but I can strongly recommend it to anyone interested to dig deep into the Hadoop ecosystem.