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title: "What is the Hadoop?"  
description: "What is the Hadoop?"  
author: "Aditya Patel"  
published: 2018-05-19  
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category: "technology"  
tags: ["database"]  
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# What is the Hadoop?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

**"Hadoop"**![What is the Hadoop?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/6ee4ec89-4e7e-4939-bc87-e9887594d7ff/images/678e2b53-539f-4cf8-a018-0dd6f4d0b0eb.png)

Hadoop is a Big Data that is developed by **Mike Cafarella and Doug Cutting**, in 2005. It was originally developed to construct the distribution of **Nutch search engine** project. It is open source projects that provide lots of framework from Apache to deal with **big data-sets** and it is also used to analyze data whose volume is so large. Generally, it is **written in java language** and used for **offline analytical processing**. It is being used by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn and other sites.


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