Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Introduction to Hadoop and Map Reduce Architecture


Thursday, February 6, 2014

Running Own Written Python Code in Hadoop

This post enlisted the steps requires to run own written code in python on Hadoop v 1.0.3 Cluster.

1. Create a mapper Python Script file.


  • su - hduser
  • nano mapper.py
Write Following code in the mapper.py file and save it.

#!/usr/bin/env python import sys # input comes from STDIN (standard input) for line in sys.stdin: # remove leading and trailing whitespace line = line.strip() # split the line into words words = line.split() # increase counters for word in words: # write the results to STDOUT (standard output); # what we output here will be the input for the # Reduce step, i.e. the input for reducer.py # # tab-delimited; the trivial word count is 1 print '%s\t%s' % (word, 1)

2. Create a reducer file.

  • nano reducer.py
Write following code in reducer file.
#!/usr/bin/env python from operator import itemgetter import sys current_word = None current_count = 0 word = None # input comes from STDIN for line in sys.stdin: # remove leading and trailing whitespace line = line.strip() # parse the input we got from mapper.py word, count = line.split('\t', 1) # convert count (currently a string) to int try: count = int(count) except ValueError: # count was not a number, so silently # ignore/discard this line continue # this IF-switch only works because Hadoop sorts map output # by key (here: word) before it is passed to the reducer if current_word == word: current_count += count else: if current_word: # write result to STDOUT print '%s\t%s' % (current_word, current_count) current_count = count current_word = word # do not forget to output the last word if needed! if current_word == word: print '%s\t%s' % (current_word, current_count)

3. Test your code (cat data | map | sort | reduce)

I recommend to test your mapper.py and reducer.py scripts locally before using them in a MapReduce job. Otherwise your jobs might successfully complete but there will be no job result data at all or not the results you would have expected.

# very basic test hduser@ubuntu:~$ echo "God is God. I am I" | /home/hduser/mapper.py God 1 is 1 God 1 I 1 am 1 I 1 hduser@ubuntu:~$ echo "God is God. I am I" | /home/hduser/mapper.py | sort -k1,1 | /home/hduser/reducer.py God 2 is 1 I 2 am 1 hduser@ubuntu:~$ cat /tmp/sandhu/pg20417.txt | /home/hduser/mapper.py The 1 Project 1 Gutenberg 1 EBook 1 of 1 [...] (you get the idea)

4. Running the Python Code on Hadoop
  • bin/hadoop jar contrib/streaming/hadoop-*streaming*.jar -mapper /home/hduser/mapper.py -reducer /home/hduser/reducer.py -input /user/hduser/gutenberg/* -output /user/hduser/gutenberg-output

Running "WordCount" Map Reduce Job in Hadoop 1.0.3

This post will explain the steps required to run WordCount map reduce job in Hadoop v 1.0.3.

  1. Create a folder to store files. Word will be counted from these files. For current setup we have three books in plain text format.
  • su - hduser
  • mkdir /tmp/sandhu
2. Copy three files to /tmp/sandhu folder. Check it using following command.
  • cd /tmp/sandhu
  • ls -l
output will look like:

3. Start the Hadoop Cluster:
  • /home/hadoop/bin/hadoop/start-all.sh
4. Before we run the actual MapReduce job, we first have to copy the files from our local file system to Hadoop’s HDFS.
  • cd /home/hadoop
  • bin/hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal /tmp/sandhu /home/hduser/sandhu
Check that files are correctly copied to HDFS by following command.
  • bin/hadoop dfs -ls /home/hduser/sandhu
output will look like:
5. Now, we actually run the WordCount example job.
  • bin/hadoop jar hadoop*examples*.jar wordcount /home/hduser/sandhu /home/hduser/sandhu-output
Output will be like:


6. Retrieve the job result from HDFS
  • bin/hadoop dfs -cat /user/hduser/sandhu-output/part-r-00000
7. Hadoop API's