Data is the new oil and it has become the most important aspect of human life. With the increasing growth in the data industry, there has been an increase in the demand for a solid platform for computing huge volumes of data.
This is where Apache Hadoop shines. Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework that supports distributed storage and processing of big data sets using simple programming models. It is designed in such a way that it can scale up from single servers to thousands of machines.