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Hadoop is a popular MapReduce framework for developing parallel applications in distributed environments. Several advantages of MapReduce such as programming ease and ability to use commodity hardware make the applicability of soft…
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Today, big data is generated from many sources and there is a huge demand for storing, managing, processing, and querying on big data. The MapReduce model and its counterpart open source implementation Hadoop, has proven itself as the de…