On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:27 AM, HHB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > I'm reading about Hadoop lately but I'm unable to understand it. > Would you please explain it to me in easy words?
Let me try. Hadoop is a framework that lets you write programs that work with very large datasets in reasonable amounts of time using "normal" computers instead of fancy servers. It does this by using large numbers of computers (from 4 up to 3,000 or so) to both store the data and process the data. When you write programs that run on large number of computers, one of the primary requirements is that it handles failures automatically, because you'll be losing a handful a day. Hadoop handles the failures automatically for you both in terms of storage on the local disks and computation. Also take a look at the presentations<http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopPresentations>about it. Google also has a lot video lectures <http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/index.html> about it. > > How to know if I can employ Hadoop in my current company? The primary way that companies use Hadoop is to process large sets of log data. Yahoo collects terabytes a day of user behaviors and wants to understand them and uses Hadoop to do it. It also has lots of other uses. See the powered by <http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy> Hadoop page for examples of what users are doing with it. -- Owen
