FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS

BASICS OF BIG DATA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was Hadoop named after?
A
Creator Doug Cutting’s favorite circus act
B
Cutting’s high school rock band
C
The toy elephant of Cutting’s son
D
A sound Cutting’s laptop made during Hadoop development
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The creator of Hadoop, Doug Cutting named it after his child’s toy elephant. Hadoop is an open source distributed processing framework that manages data processing and storage for big data applications in scalable clusters of computer servers. It’s logo is that of an elephant, explaining the origin of its name.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Nutch project was divided – the web crawler portion remained as Nutch and the distributed computing and processing portion became Hadoop (named after Cutting’s son’s toy elephant).

Detailed explanation-3: -Explanation: Doug Cutting, Hadoop creator, named the framework after his child’s stuffed toy elephant. Explanation: Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and distributed processing of Big Data on clusters of commodity hardware. 8.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hadoop was started with Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella in the year 2002 when they both started to work on Apache Nutch project. Apache Nutch project was the process of building a search engine system that can index 1 billion pages.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hadoop is a framework that works with a variety of related tools. Common cohorts include: MapReduce, Hive and HBase. MapReduce, MySQL and Google Apps.

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