How Useful is the Hadoop Framework?

February 23, 2010 3:52 pm admin Technology

The Hadoop framework, based on the MapReduce application created by Google, can be a surprisingly useful resource for different companies and organizations. This Java software framework has been developed by a community of programmers and developers from all over the world and is used to support some data-intensive distributed applications. And because of the open-source nature of the program, anyone can use the program and develop the applications that they need.

Hadoop works by using MapReduce elements to divide an application into multiple fragments, and each one can be distributed and processed on different nodes within the cluster. Then it also has a powerful distributed file system (HDFS) that stores the data on nodes throughout the cluster to provide greater bandwidth across the cluster.

 

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