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Written by a904guy
Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 01:33 AM.
Apache Hadoop is a Free Java software framework that supports data intensive distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers.[1] It enables applications to easily scale out to thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.
Hadoop is a top level Apache project, being built and used by a community of contributors from all over the world[2]. Yahoo! has been the largest contributor[3] to the project and uses Hadoop extensively in its Web Search and Advertising businesses.[4] IBM and Google have announced a major initiative to use Hadoop to support University courses in Distributed Computer Programming. [5]
Hadoop was named after its creator's (Doug Cutting, now a Yahoo employee) child's stuffed elephant. It was originally developed to support distribution for the Nutch search engine project.[6]
