The first comment is: read correctly the title ;). A book on using big data for forensic would be great but that book is on doing forensic on big data :-D. Still, it is a topic of interest for people doing forensic and probably a must-have whenever you are confronted to the case. I suspect that this would happen once in every forensic analyst life and probably more and more as data goes to "cloud" and "big-data" storage.
The book itself start with a description of Hadoop which is use for the book and on general principles. Then it cover more in details what you can expect to do and recover out of an Hadoop instance. I highly suspect that you could generalise and take profit of the work of the author for author big data systems even if not the primary goal of this book.
As a con, I would say that there is a lot of text and discussion in the first half of the book and not enough examples and cheat sheet. If you need to start quickly, probably you could jump to the 2nd half of the book. Be careful that if you don't fully understand underlying concept you could potentially make a mistake and destroy your case.
The author take the risk of covering the topic and it's nice. In a futur release or in a side book maybe he can cover more techniques, examples and demos but the book has the merit to exist and it contains a lot of good work!
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