Unless you’ve been hiding away from the world of computing for the last few years, you’ll have come across Hadoop. Apache Hadoop, to give it its full name, is an open source framework designed to handle the storage and processing of large amounts of data using low-cost commodity hardware. Since its initial release in 2011, it has become one of the most popular platforms for handling big data. How Does It Work? Hadoop grew out of Google File System, and it’s a cross-platform program developed in Java. It has four core components: Hadoop Common, which holds all of the libraries… [Continue Reading]