An introduction to Hadoop - ThinkPHP /dev/blog - PHP

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What is Hadoop? Apache Hadoop is a Java-Framework for large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure which runs on standard computers. The biggest advantage is the ability to scale to hundreds or thousands of computers. Hadoop is designed to efficiently distribute and handle large amounts of work across a set of machines. When I speak of very large amounts of data, in this case I mean hundreds of Giga-, Tera- or Peta-Bytes. There is not enough space for such an amount of data on a sin...