Introducing Hadoop

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Apparently 90% of the data in the world was produced in the last 2 years!
To this end, Hadoop was born. Hadoop is a an Apache Foundation project that has produced a software library capable of abstracting and simplifying big data queries, handling latency, failure tolerance and asynchronous data availability. Most brilliantly, it can analyze unstructured data as well as structured – so when it comes to Big data, Hadoop is the killer app of the day.
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