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Hadoop is
an open source distributed processing framework that manages data processing
and storage for big data applications running in clustered systems. It is at
the center of a growing ecosystem of big data technologies that are primarily
used to support advanced analytics initiatives, including predictive
analytics, data mining and machine learning applications. Hadoop can handle
various forms of structured and unstructured data, giving users more flexibility
for collecting, processing and analyzing data than relational databases and
data warehouses provide.
Hadoop is
primarily geared to analytics uses, and its ability to process and store
different types of data makes it a particularly good fit for big data analytics
applications. Big data environments typically involve not only large amounts
of data, but also various kinds, from structured transaction data to
semistructured and unstructured forms of information, such as internet
clickstream records, web server and mobile application logs, social media
posts, customer emails and sensor data from the internet of things (IoT).
Formally
known as Apache Hadoop, the technology is developed as part of an open source
project within the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Commercial distributions
of Hadoop are currently offered by four primary vendors of big data
platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR
Technologies. In addition, Google, Microsoft and other vendors offer
cloud-based managed services that are built on top of Hadoop and related
technologies.
Hadoop
and big data
Hadoop
runs on clusters of commodity servers and can scale up to support thousands
of hardware nodes and massive amounts of data. It uses a namesake distributed
file system that's designed to provide rapid data access across the nodes in
a cluster, plus fault-tolerant capabilities so applications can continue to
run if individual nodes fail. Consequently, Hadoop became a foundational data
management platform for big data analytics uses after it emerged in the
mid-2000s.
Hadoop was
created by computer scientists Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella, initially to
support processing in the Nutch open source search engine and web crawler.
After Google published technical papers detailing its Google File System
(GFS) and MapReduce programming framework in 2003 and 2004, respectively,
Cutting and Cafarella modified earlier technology plans and developed a
Java-based MapReduce implementation and a file system modeled on Google's.
In early
2006, those elements were split off from Nutch and became a separate Apache
subproject, which Cutting named Hadoop after his son's stuffed elephant. At
the same time, Cutting was hired by internet services company Yahoo, which
became the first production user of Hadoop later in 2006. (Cafarella, then a
graduate student, went on to become a university professor.)
Use of the
framework grew over the next few years, and three independent Hadoop vendors
were founded: Cloudera in 2008, MapR a year later and Hortonworks as a Yahoo
spinoff in 2011. In addition, AWS launched a Hadoop cloud service called
Elastic MapReduce in 2009. That was all before Apache released Hadoop 1.0.0,
which became available in December 2011 after a succession of 0.x releases.
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The following
events, industries, causes and emotions (yes, emotions) are observed all month
long in April unless otherwise indicated. Even cannabis (fast becoming
legalized), Florida tomatoes, celery, and soft pretzels are honored,
beginning April 1 through April 30—every year.
- African-American
Women's Fitness Month
- Alcohol
Awareness Month
- Amateur
Radio Month
- American
Cancer Society Month
- Asian/Pacific
American Heritage Month
- Black
Women's History Month
- Bowel
Cancer Awareness Month
- Celebrate
Diversity Month
- Community
Service Month
- Confederate
History Month
- Distracted
Driving Awareness Month
- Financial
Literacy Month
- Fresh
Florida Tomato Month
- Irritable
Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
- Jewish-American
Heritage Month
- Keep
America Beautiful Month
- Lawn and
Garden Month
- Mathematics
Awareness Month
- Month of
the Military Child
- National
Autism Awareness Month
- National
Better Hearing and Speech Month
- National
Canine Fitness Month
- National
Cannabis Awareness Month
- National
Car Care Awareness Month
- National
Child Abuse Awareness Month
- National
Couple Appreciation Month
- National
Deaf History Month (March 13 to April 15)
- National
Decorating Month
- National
Donate Life Awareness Month
- National
Fair Housing Month
- National
Food Month
- National
Fresh Celery Month
- National
Garden Month
- National
Humor Month
- National
Internship Awareness Month
- National
Inventor's Month
- National
Jazz Appreciation Month
- National
Landscape Architecture Month
- National
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (last full week in April)
- National
Mental Health Month
- National
Month of Hope
- National
Multiple Birth Awareness Month
- National
Occupational Therapy Month
- National
Older Americans Month
- National
Parkinson's Awareness Month
- National
Pecan Month
- National
Poetry Month
- National
Safe Digging Month
- National
Siblings Day (April 10)
- National
Soft Pretzel Month
- National
Soy Foods Month
- National
STDs Education and Awareness Month
- National
Straw Hat Month
- National
Volunteer Month
- National
Welding Month
- Occupational
Therapy Month
- Pets are
Wonderful Month
- Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals Month
-
-
- Records
and Information Management Month
- Scottish-American
Heritage Month
- Sexual
Assault Awareness Month
- Stress
Awareness Month
- Thai
Heritage Month
- Women's
Health Care Month
International and One-Day Observances
Because you may
be in the business of working with internationals, we can not forget the
participation of other countries. Here are a few international honorees, as
well as some causes that are observed globally:
- April is
International Guitar Month, recognized in several countries.
- Ontario,
Canada recognizes April as Sikh Heritage Month.
- April is
National Pet Month in the United Kingdom, although the U.S. waits until
May to honor Postsits non-human family members.
- International
Pillow Fight Day is observed on April 6 in 2019.
- World
Autism Awareness Day also falls on April 2 in 2019.
- World Health
Day is April 7, in 2019.
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