MapReduce - Installation

MapReduce works only on Linux flavored operating systems and it comes inbuilt with a Hadoop Framework. We need to perform the following steps in order to install Hadoop framework.

Verifying JAVA Installation

Java must be installed on your system before instalpng Hadoop. Use the following command to check whether you have Java installed on your system.

$ java –version

If Java is already installed on your system, you get to see the following response −

java version "1.7.0_71"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_71-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) Cpent VM (build 25.0-b02, mixed mode)

In case you don’t have Java installed on your system, then follow the steps given below.

Instalpng Java

Step 1

Download the latest version of Java from the following pnk − this pnk.

After downloading, you can locate the file jdk-7u71-pnux-x64.tar.gz in your Downloads folder.

Step 2

Use the following commands to extract the contents of jdk-7u71-pnux-x64.gz.

$ cd Downloads/
$ ls
jdk-7u71-pnux-x64.gz
$ tar zxf jdk-7u71-pnux-x64.gz
$ ls
jdk1.7.0_71 jdk-7u71-pnux-x64.gz

Step 3

To make Java available to all the users, you have to move it to the location “/usr/local/”. Go to root and type the following commands −

$ su
password:
# mv jdk1.7.0_71 /usr/local/java
# exit

Step 4

For setting up PATH and JAVA_HOME variables, add the following commands to ~/.bashrc file.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Apply all the changes to the current running system.

$ source ~/.bashrc

Step 5

Use the following commands to configure Java alternatives −

# alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java usr/local/java/bin/java 2

# alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac usr/local/java/bin/javac 2

# alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar usr/local/java/bin/jar 2

# alternatives --set java usr/local/java/bin/java

# alternatives --set javac usr/local/java/bin/javac

# alternatives --set jar usr/local/java/bin/jar

Now verify the installation using the command java -version from the terminal.

Verifying Hadoop Installation

Hadoop must be installed on your system before instalpng MapReduce. Let us verify the Hadoop installation using the following command −

$ hadoop version

If Hadoop is already installed on your system, then you will get the following response −

Hadoop 2.4.1
--
Subversion https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common -r 1529768
Compiled by hortonmu on 2013-10-07T06:28Z
Compiled with protoc 2.5.0
From source with checksum 79e53ce7994d1628b240f09af91e1af4

If Hadoop is not installed on your system, then proceed with the following steps.

Downloading Hadoop

Download Hadoop 2.4.1 from Apache Software Foundation and extract its contents using the following commands.

$ su
password:
# cd /usr/local
# wget http://apache.claz.org/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.4.1/
hadoop-2.4.1.tar.gz
# tar xzf hadoop-2.4.1.tar.gz
# mv hadoop-2.4.1/* to hadoop/
# exit

Instalpng Hadoop in Pseudo Distributed mode

The following steps are used to install Hadoop 2.4.1 in pseudo distributed mode.

Step 1 − Setting up Hadoop

You can set Hadoop environment variables by appending the following commands to ~/.bashrc file.

export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/hadoop
export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
export HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
export YARN_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
export HADOOP_COMMON_LIB_NATIVE_DIR=$HADOOP_HOME/pb/native
export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_HOME/sbin:$HADOOP_HOME/bin

Apply all the changes to the current running system.

$ source ~/.bashrc

Step 2 − Hadoop Configuration

You can find all the Hadoop configuration files in the location “$HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop”. You need to make suitable changes in those configuration files according to your Hadoop infrastructure.

$ cd $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop

In order to develop Hadoop programs using Java, you have to reset the Java environment variables in hadoop-env.sh file by replacing JAVA_HOME value with the location of Java in your system.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java

You have to edit the following files to configure Hadoop −

core-site.xml

hdfs-site.xml

yarn-site.xml

mapred-site.xml

core-site.xml

core-site.xml contains the following information−

Port number used for Hadoop instance

Memory allocated for the file system

Memory pmit for storing the data

Size of Read/Write buffers

Open the core-site.xml and add the following properties in between the <configuration> and </configuration> tags.

<configuration>
   <property>
      <name>fs.default.name</name>
      <value>hdfs://localhost:9000 </value>
   </property>
</configuration>

hdfs-site.xml

hdfs-site.xml contains the following information −

Value of reppcation data

The namenode path

The datanode path of your local file systems (the place where you want to store the Hadoop infra)

Let us assume the following data.

dfs.reppcation (data reppcation value) = 1

(In the following path /hadoop/ is the user name.
hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode is the directory created by hdfs file system.)
namenode path = //home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode

(hadoopinfra/hdfs/datanode is the directory created by hdfs file system.)
datanode path = //home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/datanode

Open this file and add the following properties in between the <configuration>, </configuration> tags.

<configuration>

   <property>
      <name>dfs.reppcation</name>
      <value>1</value>
   </property>
   
   <property>
      <name>dfs.name.dir</name>
      <value>file:///home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode</value>
   </property>
   
   <property>
      <name>dfs.data.dir</name>
      <value>file:///home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/datanode </value>
   </property>
   
</configuration>

Note − In the above file, all the property values are user-defined and you can make changes according to your Hadoop infrastructure.

yarn-site.xml

This file is used to configure yarn into Hadoop. Open the yarn-site.xml file and add the following properties in between the <configuration>, </configuration> tags.

<configuration>
   <property>
      <name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services</name>
      <value>mapreduce_shuffle</value>
   </property>
</configuration>

mapred-site.xml

This file is used to specify the MapReduce framework we are using. By default, Hadoop contains a template of yarn-site.xml. First of all, you need to copy the file from mapred-site.xml.template to mapred-site.xml file using the following command.

$ cp mapred-site.xml.template mapred-site.xml

Open mapred-site.xml file and add the following properties in between the <configuration>, </configuration> tags.

<configuration>
   <property>
      <name>mapreduce.framework.name</name>
      <value>yarn</value>
   </property>
</configuration>

Verifying Hadoop Installation

The following steps are used to verify the Hadoop installation.

Step 1 − Name Node Setup

Set up the namenode using the command “hdfs namenode -format” as follows −

$ cd ~
$ hdfs namenode -format

The expected result is as follows −

10/24/14 21:30:55 INFO namenode.NameNode: STARTUP_MSG:
/************************************************************
STARTUP_MSG: Starting NameNode
STARTUP_MSG: host = localhost/192.168.1.11
STARTUP_MSG: args = [-format]
STARTUP_MSG: version = 2.4.1
...
...
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO common.Storage: Storage directory
/home/hadoop/hadoopinfra/hdfs/namenode has been successfully formatted.
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO namenode.NNStorageRetentionManager: Going to
retain 1 images with txid >= 0
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO util.ExitUtil: Exiting with status 0
10/24/14 21:30:56 INFO namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG:

/************************************************************
SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at localhost/192.168.1.11
************************************************************/

Step 2 − Verifying Hadoop dfs

Execute the following command to start your Hadoop file system.

$ start-dfs.sh

The expected output is as follows −

10/24/14 21:37:56
Starting namenodes on [localhost]
localhost: starting namenode, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop-
2.4.1/logs/hadoop-hadoop-namenode-localhost.out
localhost: starting datanode, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop-
2.4.1/logs/hadoop-hadoop-datanode-localhost.out
Starting secondary namenodes [0.0.0.0]

Step 3 − Verifying Yarn Script

The following command is used to start the yarn script. Executing this command will start your yarn daemons.

$ start-yarn.sh

The expected output is as follows −

starting yarn daemons
starting resourcemanager, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop-
2.4.1/logs/yarn-hadoop-resourcemanager-localhost.out
localhost: starting node manager, logging to /home/hadoop/hadoop-
2.4.1/logs/yarn-hadoop-nodemanager-localhost.out

Step 4 − Accessing Hadoop on Browser

The default port number to access Hadoop is 50070. Use the following URL to get Hadoop services on your browser.

http://localhost:50070/

The following screenshot shows the Hadoop browser.

Step 5 − Verify all Apppcations of a Cluster

The default port number to access all the apppcations of a cluster is 8088. Use the following URL to use this service.

http://localhost:8088/

The following screenshot shows a Hadoop cluster browser.