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YARN - Yet Another Resource Negotiator

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I hope you know what is BigData , Hadoop and HDFS If not, I suggest you to read above topics before read this. What is YARN? YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator. It's one of the Hadoop core components. YARN is use to manage the hadoop cluster. like schedule task and manage the resource. In Hadoop V1, MapReduce is the one who handled all resource related details and task/job details. It's over load for MapRedice job. So, in Hadoop V2 they splitted resource related things separately and name as YARN. Components: Resource Manager Node Manager Resource Manager It's master node in YARN. Only per cluster. It knows the slave node details. It inhabit the JobTracker of MapReduce Version 1 (MRV1). Resource Scheduler Resource Scheduler is responsible for allocating resource to application and it's not perform any monitoring and tracking activities like application failure, Hardware failure and so on. App Manager It maintain the

HDFS Commands Part - II

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In part - I session we learned about HDFS basic commands, in this session will see the intermediate level commands. Before read this article I suggest you to learn basic hdfs commands.   Commands 1. copyFromLocal This HDFS command is similar to put command, but the source is restricted to a local file reference.      Usages: hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal <local_path> <hdfs_path>      Example: hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal /home/user/Desktop/file.orc /dir_1/ 2. copyToLocal This HDFS command will copy file/directory from HDFS to local file system.      Usages: hdfs dfs -copyToLocal <hdfs_path <local_path>      Example: hdfs dfs -copyToLocal /dir_1/file.orc /home/user/Desktop/ 3. text This HDFS command will take the source file and display the file content in text formad.      Usages: hdfs dfs -text <hdfs_file_path>      Example: hdfs dfs -text /dir_1/file 4. tail This HDFS command will displays last kilobyte of the file to

What is HDFS

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What is HDFS HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is a file system like our normal desktop/laptop file system which is used to store the data. It's specially designed for storing huge datasets with cluster of commodity hardware and with streaming access pattern.   The data may be text file, image, audio, video, etc... Streaming access pattern Streaming access pattern means write once read many number of time but don't change content of the file is called as streaming access pattern. Operations in HDFS Write Operation Read Operation   Write Operation Assume that you are writing file into HDFS. Your write request will go NameNode (NN) Distributed File System (DFS). The DFS will make RPC call to the namenode for create new file. Before creating file the namenode will do couple of things. It will check whether the file is not exist and user has permission to create new file. Once all the check is done successfully the namenode will provide av