Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in JAVA, which has a set of algorithms for distributed storage and processing the big data on computer clusters of commodity hardware. It was developed in the year 2005 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella. It helps the users to write and test distributed systems as quick as ever. Other major advantage of Hadoop apart from open-source is that it is compatible in all platforms.
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