Hadoop是Apache提出的一个软件框架（即：开放源码并行运算编程工具和分布式文件系统，与MapReduce和Google档案系统的概念类似）

Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license.^[1]It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google'sMapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.

Hadoop is a top-level Apache project being built and used by a global community of contributors,^[2] using the Javaprogramming language. Yahoo! has been the largest contributor^[3] to the project, and uses Hadoop extensively across its businesses.^[4]

Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting,^[5] who named it after his son's toy elephant.^[6] It was originally developed to support distribution for the Nutch search engine project.^[7]

http://hadoop.apache.org/

What Is Apache Hadoop?

The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. 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-avaiability, 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 project includes these subprojects:

Hadoop Common: The common utilities that support the other Hadoop subprojects.
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS™): A distributed file system that provides high-throughput access to application data.
Hadoop MapReduce: A software framework for distributed processing of large data sets on compute clusters.

Other Hadoop-related projects at Apache include:

Avro™: A data serialization system.
Cassandra™: A scalable multi-master database with no single points of failure.
Chukwa™: A data collection system for managing large distributed systems.
HBase™: A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables.
Hive™: A data warehouse infrastructure that provides data summarization and ad hoc querying.
Mahout™: A Scalable machine learning and data mining library.
Pig™: A high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel computation.
ZooKeeper™: A high-performance coordination service for distributed applications.

Who Uses Hadoop?

A wide variety of companies and organizations use Hadoop for both research and production. Users are encouraged to add themselves to the Hadoop PoweredBy wiki page.