Books to start learning big data

Question

I would like to start learning about the big data technologies. I want to work in this area in the future. Does anyone know good books to start learning about it? Hadoop, HBase.

Beginner - intermediate - advanced -

Thanks in advance

Solution 1

How about Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, from O'Reilly Media. It covers everything to do with Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS and more.

Solution 2

I think a good start for beginner will be the Big Data course from Coursera

For example I've learnt the basics of MapReduce techonlology.

Solution 3

Besides the Cloudera resources I'd highly recommend you the reference books from O'Reilly :

• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide
• Programming Pig
• Programming Hive
• HBase: The Definitive Guide

You might also check it's data science kit as well.

Solution 4

If you are interested in Hive and Pig there are also more specialised books about these technologies:

• Programming Hive
• Programming Pig

Solution 5

I would suggest to learn machine learning alongside the technology part https://www.coursera.org/course/ml. Learning statistics is also very important.

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[Christofer Eliasson]

Welcome to StackOverflow! Asking about book recommendations are generally not considered good question material. You can read more about that here, so I'm voting to close this question based on that.

[g24l]

@ChristoferEliasson it is quite surprising that this is closed , whereas this one stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/… is not.