“While FEC is primarily designed for error correction, it can also detect most uncorrectable errors,” the researchers wrote. ...

Self-Healing: Hadoop continuously monitors the health of the nodes in the cluster. When it detects a failed node, it automatically redistributes the data and tasks to healthy nodes, ensuring data ...

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There is no need to provision servers, install the OS, install software, configure everything, scale the cluster to 1,000 nodes, and feed and care for the cluster as you would with Hadoop/Spark.

Social media giant plans to offload some of its Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud Platform to boost the resiliency of its infrastructure.

Last week I wrote about a 300 node cluster using Raspberry Pi (RPi) microcomputers. But can you do useful work on such a low-cost, low-power cluster? Yes, you can. Hadoop runs on massive clusters ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

In the wide world of Hadoop today, there are seven technology areas that have garnered a high level of interest. These key areas prove that Hadoop is not just a big data tool; it is a strong ecosystem ...