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Hadoop 1.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the doowop-doobie-dee-do-hadoop-whaeeeee dept.

darthcamaro writes "There has been a tonne of hype about Big Data and specifically Hadoop in recent years. But until today, Hadoop was not a 1.0 release product. Does it matter? Not really, but it's still a big milestone. The new release includes a new web interface for the Hadoop filesystem, security, and Hbase database support. '"At this point we figured that as a community we can support this release and be compatible for the foreseeable future. That makes this release an ideal candidate to be called 1.0," Arun C. Murthy, vice president of Apache Hadoop, said.'"

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  1. What is Hadoop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Wikipedia:

    Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license.[1] It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.

    Hadoop is a top-level Apache project being built and used by a global community of contributors,[2] written in the Java programming language. Yahoo! has been the largest contributor[3] to the project, and uses Hadoop extensively across its businesses.[4]

    Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting,[5] who named it after his son's toy elephant.[6] It was originally developed to support distribution for the Nutch search engine project.[7]

    ...in case you're as ignorant as I am. Post anonymously to avoid karma whoring.

  2. What the heck is Hadoop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Um, what the heck is Hadoop? A filesystem? Linux distro? Database software? Something to do with web servers? Throw me a bone here, man. Why does this 'Big Data' need capitalization?

    And most importantly, why did they go with the British spelling for 'tonne'? Is this a product of the UK?

    What, read the article? Are you mad?

  3. Better late than never by abigor · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was actually released over a week ago, but I guess the announcement got lost over the holidays. I am actually a bit surprised they did a 1.0 version before solving the "NameNode is a single point of failure" problem with HDFS. I know for a fact that big companies (one of which was a client) are sometimes hesitant to deploy Hadoop because of this.

    In theory, you can also use Hadoop with purportedly more robust distribute file systems, like KFS (Kosmos File System, I think it's called). I've never seen this in the wild though.