Components of Apache Hadoop
Apache Hadoop is composed of two core components. They are:
- HDFS: The HDFS is responsible for the storage of files. It is the storage component of Apache Hadoop, which was designed and developed to handle large files efficiently. It is a distributed filesystem designed to work on a cluster and makes it easy to store large files by splitting the files into blocks and distributing them across multiple nodes redundantly. The users of HDFS need not worry about the underlying networking aspects, as HDFS takes care of it. HDFS is written in Java and is a filesystem that runs within the user space.
- MapReduce: MapReduce is a programming model that was built from models found in the field of functional programming and distributed ...
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