Apache Hadoop is an open source software platform built from commodity hardware and used to scale clusters up to terabytes or petabytes for big data, spanning across thousands of servers. It is highly popular and efficient for distributed data storage and distributed processing of very large datasets. Hadoop offers a full scale of services such as data persistence, data processing, data access, data governance, data security, and operations. A few of the benefits associated with Hadoop clusters are listed as follows:
- Data scalability: Big data volumes can grow exponentially to accommodate these large data volumes, Hadoop enables distributed processing of data; each node in the data cluster participates in storing, managing, processing, and analyzing data. The addition of nodes enables quick scaling of clusters to store data at a scale of petabytes.
- Data reliability: Hadoop cluster configurations provide data redundancy. For example, in case of accidental failure...