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Explore more in this guide: 5. - Big data terminology: Read more in this section big data (Big Data) big data management big data analytics big data as a service (BDaaS) Hadoop NoSQL (Not Only SQL) data warehouse Read more in this section Explore other sections in this guide: 1. - Advertising firm attracts clients with big data strategy 2. - Sprint's big data project highlighted at IBM conference 3. - Managing online data: comScore explains big data analytics move 4. - Big data applications create new opportunities -- and challenges View all sections in this guide Hadoop is a free, Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It is part of the Apache project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop makes it possible to run applications on systems with thousands of nodes involving thousands of terabytes. Its distributed file system facilitates rapid data transfer rates among nodes and allows the system to continue operating uninterrupted in case of a node failure. This approach lowers the risk of catastrophic system failure, even if a significant number of nodes become inoperative. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce, a software framework in which an application is broken down into numerous small parts. Any of these parts (also called fragments or blocks) can be run on any node in the cluster. Doug Cutting, Hadoop's creator, named the framework after his child's stuffed toy elephant. The current Apache Hadoop ecosystem consists of the Hadoop kernel, MapReduce, the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and a number of related projects such as Apache Hive, HBase and Zookeeper. The Hadoop framework is used by major players including Google, Yahoo and IBM, largely for applications involving search engines and advertising. The preferred operating systems are Windows and Linux but Hadoop can also work with BSD and OS X. This was last updated in August 2010 Posted by: Margaret Rouse View the next item in this Essential Guide: NoSQL (Not Only SQL) or view the full guide: Big data applications: Real-world strategies for managing big data Other Essential Guides Related to This Topic
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