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History of Hadoop

Doug Cutting, after getting inspiration from Google’s MapReduce (published in 2004, where an application is broken down into multiple blocks/fragments and then run on multiple nodes belonging to the same cluster), created this framework and named it Hadoop (in 2006), after his child’s stuffed yellow elephant toy. According to him, the name was short, unique, and relatively easy to spell and pronounce. In the same year (2006), Doug joined Yahoo and in the year 2008, he created a Hadoop cluster comprising of 4,000 nodes in Yahoo, using which Yahoo breaks the TeraByte sort benchmark (http://sortbenchmark.org/). The following figure explains Hadoop's history in a more readable and pictorial fashion:

Figure 03: Apache Hadoop's ...