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Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

With “big data” grabbing headlines and Hadoop being the poster child for implementing big data, there is tremendous interest in this open source software, largely because the software is cheap and ...