Big data is characterized by 3Vs - volume, velocity, and variety. Hadoop is a framework for distributed processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. It provides HDFS for storage, MapReduce for batch processing, and YARN for resource management. Additional tools like Spark, Mahout, and Zeppelin can be used for real-time processing, machine learning, and data visualization respectively on Hadoop. Benefits of Hadoop include ease of scaling to large data, high performance via parallel processing, reliability through data protection and failover.
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