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Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. It provides storage through the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and processing via MapReduce. HDFS splits files into blocks and stores them across nodes, while MapReduce transfers code to nodes to process data in parallel, taking advantage of data locality for faster and more efficient computations. The core of Hadoop includes common utilities, HDFS, YARN for resource management, and MapReduce.

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Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. It provides storage through the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and processing via MapReduce. HDFS splits files into blocks and stores them across nodes, while MapReduce transfers code to nodes to process data in parallel, taking advantage of data locality for faster and more efficient computations. The core of Hadoop includes common utilities, HDFS, YARN for resource management, and MapReduce.

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Apache Hadoop

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Apache Hadoop ( /həˈduːp/) is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitate using a
network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and
computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big
data using the MapReduce programming model. Originally designed for computer clusters built
from commodity hardware[3]—still the common use—it has also found use on clusters of higher-
end hardware.[4][5] All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that
hardware failures are common occurrences and should be automatically handled by the
framework.[2]
The core of Apache Hadoop consists of a storage part, known as Hadoop Distributed File
System (HDFS), and a processing part which is a MapReduce programming model. Hadoop
splits files into large blocks and distributes them across nodes in a cluster. It then
transfers packaged code into nodes to process the data in parallel. This approach takes
advantage of data locality,[6] where nodes manipulate the data they have access to. This allows
the dataset to be processed faster and more efficiently than it would be in a more
conventional supercomputer architecture that relies on a parallel file system where computation
and data are distributed via high-speed networking.[7][8]
The base Apache Hadoop framework is composed of the following modules:

 Hadoop Common – contains libraries and utilities needed by other Hadoop modules;

 Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) – a distributed file-system that stores data on
commodity machines, providing very high aggregate bandwidth across the cluster;
 Hadoop YARN – introduced in 2012 is a platform responsible for managing computing
resources in clusters and using them for scheduling users' applications; [9][10]

 Hadoop MapReduce – an implementation of the MapReduce programming model for


large-scale data processing.
The term Hadoop is often used for both base modules and sub-modules and also the ecosystem,
[11]
or collection of additional software packages that can be installed on top of or alongside
Hadoop, such as Apache Pig, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Phoenix, Apache
Spark, Apache ZooKeeper, Cloudera Impala, Apache Flume, Apache Sqoop, Apache Oozie,
and Apache Storm.[12]
Apache Hadoop's MapReduce and HDFS components were inspired by Google papers
on MapReduce and Google File System.[13]
The Hadoop framework itself is mostly written in the Java programming language, with some
native code in C and command line utilities written as shell scripts. Though MapReduce Java
code is common, any programming language can be used with Hadoop Streaming to implement
the map and reduce parts of the user's program.[14] Other projects in the Hadoop ecosystem
expose richer user interfaces.

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