Preface

This book covers the application of Hadoop and its ecosystem of tools to solve business problems. Hadoop has fast emerged as the leading big data platform and finds applications in many industries where massive datasets or big data has to be stored and analyzed. Hadoop lowers the cost of investment in the storage. It supports the generation of new business insights, which was not possible earlier because of the massive volumes and computing capacity required to process such information. This book covers several business cases to build solutions to business problems. Each solution covered in this book has been built using Hadoop and HDFS and the set of tools from the Hadoop ecosystem.