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Apache Hadoop Interview Questions & Answers
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Apache Hadoop makes it possible to run applications on systems with thousands of commodity hardware nodes, and to handle thousands of terabytes of data. Its distributed file system facilitates rapid data transfer rates among nodes and allows the system to continue operating in case of a node failure. This approach lowers the risk of catastrophic system failure and unexpected data loss, even if a significant number of nodes become inoperative. Consequently, Hadoop quickly emerged as a foundation for big data processing tasks, such as scientific analytics, business and sales planning, and processing enormous volumes of sensor data, including from internet of things sensors.
Hadoop was created by computer scientists Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella in 2006 to support distribution for the Nutch search engine. It was inspired by Google's MapReduce, a software framework in which an application is broken down into numerous small parts. Any of these parts, which are also called fragments
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