Apache Hadoop achieves 1.0 status

ZDNet reports.

It's no small milestone. The open source cloud computing framework, which began with technologies created by Yahoo and Google, and is now used by major enterprises, including Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, LinkedIn and Twitter, has been six years in the making.

A foundation of cloud computing and at the epicentre of big data solutions, Apache Hadoop enables data-intensive distributed applications to work with thousands of nodes and exabytes of data, CloudTweaks says.

Hadoop enables organisations to more efficiently and cost-effectively store, process, manage and analyse the growing volumes of data being created and collected every day. Apache Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process and analyse data at supercomputing speed.

According to PCWorld, three new additions in particular helped make this release worthy of the 1.0 designation.

End-to-end security is the chief feature. Hadoop can now be secured across an entire network, using the Kerberos network authentication protocol. As a result, enterprises can now trust their Hadoop deployments with sensitive and personal data. The second feature, the webhdfs REST API (representational state transfer application programming interface), can be used to interact with Hadoop using Web technologies that many administrators and programmers easily understand, making Hadoop more applicable to more organisations. Finally, this version is the first to fully run HBase, which gives administrators a familiar relational database-like structure to store their data.