The document provides an introduction to Hadoop, emphasizing its importance in handling big data through its ecosystem of tools for storing, processing, and analyzing vast amounts of varied and unstructured data. It outlines the architecture of Hadoop, including HDFS and YARN, and discusses various languages and frameworks used for data processing. The author highlights the necessity of understanding Hadoop for future job security in data-related fields and suggests starting with distributions such as Hortonworks or Cloudera.
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