What is HADOOP ??
Hadoop is an open source software framework for storing data and running application on clusters of commodity hardware. It provide massive storage for any kind of data enormous processing power and the ability to handle virtually limitless concurrent task and or jobs. Why HADOOP is important ? For better computing power For less fault tolerance Ability to store and process huge amounts of any kind of data quickly Flexibility Scalability Currently HADOOP is used by:- Search - Yahoo, Amazon, Zevents Log Processing - Facebook, Yahoo Data Warehouse - Facebook, AOL Video and Image Analysis - New York Times, Eyealike Thank you!!