1. Apache David Schneider (schnei21) ITEC400

2. What is Hadoop? Distributed Computing Open Source Reliable Scalable Fun Facts What is a Hadoop? Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting, and the name came from his son’s toy elephant which happened to be named Hadoop. Built originally off of papers by Google on the Google Map Reduce methodology.

3. HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)

4. Map Reduce

5. Meeting their goals?  Hadoop has become much more than the original base product, and now the term is often used to represent the whole ecosystem of additional software products that further enhance the original in terms of functionality or processing speed.  Latest Release: Feb. 11, 2016 (version 2.6.4)  Early achievments:  July 2008 – Won a Terabyte Sort competition  March 2011 – Took top prize at the Media Guardian Innovation Awards  Spun off several other Apache projects such as: Ambari, Avro, Cassandra, Chukwa, Hive, Pig, Spark, Tez, and ZooKeeper.