Book review-Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

摘要

Hadoop is one of those IT things that-the more you hear about it, the less you understand, where hype blurs reality. We decided to go to the horses mouth, with a quick spin through Tom White's 'Hadoop, The definitive guide (HTDG-0501).' Well a quick spin is not quite right for a 650 page manual-but here goes.Hadoop is a data storage and analysis platform that was developed for 'big data' such as generated by web traffic to Google and Yahoo where the tool originated.