Elementary Concepts of Big Data and Hadoop

Abstract

This paper is an effort to present the basic importance of Big Data and also its importance in an organization from its performance point of view. The term Big data, refers the data sets, whose volume, complexity and also rate of growth make them more difficult to capture, manage, process and also analyzed. For such type of data –intensive applications, the Apache Hadoop Framework has newly concerned a lot of attention. Hadoop is the core platform for structuring Big data, and solves the problem of making it helpful for analytics idea. Hadoop is an open source software project that enables the distributed processing of enormous data and framework for the analysis and transformation of very large data sets using the MapReduce paradigm. This paper deals with the architecture of Hadoop with its various components.