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Why Hadoop?

April 26th, 2010 adminLeave a comment

Hadoop is an open-source software platform by the Apache Foundation for building clusters of servers for use in distributed computing. Server clustering is really nothing new or revolutionary but Hadoop is designed specifically for mass-scale computing, which involves thousands of servers. Based on a paper originally written by Google about their MapReduce system, Hadoop leverages concepts from functional programming to solve large computing problems. Hadoop is an ideal solution for working with large volumes of data in a variety of applications from scientific to searching through web pages. Leveraging the Power of Functional Programming Functional programming is a style… Click to view full post.

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