Apache Hadoop is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines | ||
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It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-availability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.
The above yellow elephant is the mascot for Hadoop. | ||
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