Hadoop, originally developed by Yahoo, is an integrated collection of tools for managing distributed data and enabling highly scalable data processing across clusters. The Hadoop tools support the construction of very large databases and data warehouses, as well as the execution of large-scale analytics and data analysis functions such as MapReduce. For companies that have wanted access to the tools used by the "big boys" to do extensive analysis of large data sets, Hadoop provides a robust and free solution.
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