Apache Hadoop is a new way for enterprises to store and analyze data.
Hadoop is an open-source project administered by the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop’s contributors work for some of the world’s biggest technology companies. That diverse, motivated community has produced a genuinely innovative platform for consolidating, combining and understanding large-scale data in order to better comprehend the enormity of data enterprises are faced with managing and understanding.
Enterprises such as finance, healthcare, Intelligence and law enforcement today collect and generate more data than ever before. Traditionally enterprises earth with data though the use of data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) tools Hadoop, however, was designed to solve a different problem: the fast, reliable analysis of both structured data and complex data. As a result, many enterprises deploy Hadoop alongside their legacy IT systems, which allows them to combine old data and new data sets in powerful new ways.
Technically, Hadoop consists of two key services: reliable data storage using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and high-performance parallel data processing using a technique called MapReduce.
Hadoop runs on a collection of commodity, shared-nothing servers. You can add or remove servers in a Hadoop cluster at will; the system detects and compensates for hardware or system problems on any server. Hadoop, in other words, is self-healing. It can deliver data — and can run large-scale, high-performance processing jobs — in spite of system changes or failures.
Originally developed and employed by dominant Web companies like Yahoo and Facebook, Hadoop is now widely used in finance, technology, telecom, media and entertainment, government, research institutions and other markets with significant data. With Hadoop, enterprises can easily explore complex data using custom analyses tailored to their information and questions.
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