Important Tools For Hadoop Users

    When it comes to Big Data analysis, Hadoop is at the forefront of things. These tools manage various aspects of big data analysis using Hadoop.

1. Ambari The Apache Ambari project is aimed at making Hadoop management simpler by developing software for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari provides an intuitive, easy-to-use Hadoop management web UI backed by its RESTful APIs. (Official Website) 2. HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed file system designed to run on commodity hardware. It has many similarities with existing distributed file systems. However, the differences from other distributed file systems are significant. HDFS is highly fault-tolerant and is designed to be deployed on low-cost hardware. HDFS provides high throughput access to application data and is suitable for applications that have large data sets. HDFS relaxes a few POSIX requirements to enable streaming access to file system data. HDFS was originally built as infrastructure for the Apache Nutch web search engine project. HDFS is now an Apache Hadoop subproject. (Official Website) 3. HBase Use Apache HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, Apache HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS. (Official Website) 4. Hive The Apache Hive ™ data warehouse software facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. Hive provides a mechanism to project structure onto this data and query the data using a SQL-like language called HiveQL. At the same time this language also allows traditional map/reduce programmers to plug in their custom mappers and reducers when it is inconvenient or inefficient to express this logic in HiveQL. (Official Website) 5. Sqoop Apache Sqoop(TM) is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. (Official Website) 6. Pig Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets. (Official Website) 7. ZooKeeper Apache ZooKeeper is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination. (Official Website) 8. NoSQL This is the answer to MySQL and other established database management systems. It includes names like MongoDB etc. 9. Mahout The Apache Mahout project's goal is to build a scalable machine learning library. (Official Website) 10. Lucene/Solr This is an enterprise search platform that comes from the Apache Lucene project. 11. Avro This is a data sterilisation system. 12. Oozie This is a workflow scheduler that helps manage jobs on Apache Hadoop.