Apache has been developing Hadoop for six years
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source organization The Apache Software Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has launched Apache Hadoop v1.0, the open source software framework for distributed computing.
Apache says Hadoop is now enterprise-ready after six years of development. Apache Hadoop allows organizations to store, process, manage and analyze “big data.” It connects thousands of servers to process and analyze data, according to the press release.
The past year has seen a flurry of open source cloud development including Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, and Joyent Cloud. While Hadoop has been under development for quite some time, this release will meet the increasing need of processing and storing large amounts of data for enterprises.
Organizations already using Apache Hadoop include Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Facebook, eBay, Apple, HP, and Netflix to name a few. According to the press release, Yahoo hosts the largest known Hadoop production environment to date, spanning more than 42,000 nodes.
“This release is the culmination of a lot of hard work and cooperation from a vibrant Apache community group of dedicated software developers and committers that has brought new levels of stability and production expertise to the Hadoop project,” Arun C. Murthy, vice president of Apache Hadoop said in a statement. “Hadoop is becoming the de facto data platform that enables organizations to store, process and query vast torrents of data, and the new release represents an important step forward in performance, stability and security.”
Apache Hadoop includes support for HBase, security with strong authentication via Kerberos, Webhdfs, and all version 0.20.205 and prior 0.20.2xx features.
“Gartner is seeing a steady increase in interest in Apache Hadoop and related ‘big data’ technologies, as measured by substantial growth in client inquiries, dramatic rises in attendance at industry events, increasing financial investments and the introduction of products from leading data management and data integration software vendors,” Merv Adrian, research vice president at Gartner said in a statement. “The 1.0 release of Apache Hadoop marks a major milestone for this open source offering as enterprises across multiple industries begin to integrate it into their technology architecture plans.”
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