| Website | apache.org |
| @TheASF | |
| Category | Software |
| apache@apache.org | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 6/99 |
The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.
| Website | hadoop.apache.org |
| Stage | Live |
| Tags | distributed-computing, map-reduce, distributed-file-system, java |
Hadoop is a Free Java software framework that supports distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers that process huge amounts of data. It is a top level Apache project and was originally developed to support distribution for Nutch.
Hadoop consists of an open source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure, specifically MapReduce and the Google File System (GFS).
