Hadoop is an open-source distributed computing platform and software framework designed for storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data sets in a distributed and fault-tolerant manner across clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop consists of multiple components, including the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for distributed storage and MapReduce for distributed processing, along with additional modules and ecosystem projects for data ingestion, data processing, data querying, and data analysis. Hadoop enables organizations to perform scalable and cost-effective big data analytics, data warehousing, data lakes, and machine learning applications, leveraging parallel processing, data locality, and fault tolerance capabilities of distributed computing.
