BENEFITS AND IMPORTANCE OF HADOOP – BIG DATA PLATFORM

Hadoop is an open source platform that provides excellent data management provision. It is a framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It is designed to expand from single servers to thousands of machines, each providing computation and storage. Its distributed file system facilitates rapid data transfer rates among nodes and allows the system to continue operating uninterrupted in case of a node failure, which minimizes the risk of catastrophic system failure, even if a significant number of nodes become out of action. Hadoop is very valuable for large scale businesses basing on its proven benefits for enterprises given below: Advantages for Enterprises: Hadoop provides a cost effective storage solution for business. It facilitates businesses to easily access new data sources and tap into different types of data to produce value from that data. It is a highly scalabl...