What to consider before Deploying the Hadoop framework: "When “big data” comes up in conversation, Apache Hadoop often is not far behind. There’s good reason for that: Hadoop has a file system that doesn’t  flinch at ingesting different data structures, as well as a massively parallel processing (MPP) system that can work through large data sets quickly. Plus, because it’s built on commodity hardware and open-source software, it’s cheap and scalable."

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