Hadoop is changing the way people think about data. We need to know what led to the origin of this magical innovation. Who developed Hadoop and why? What problems existed before Hadoop? How has it solved these problems? What challenges were encountered during development? How has Hadoop transformed from version 1 to version 3? Let's walk through the origins of Hadoop and its journey to version 3.
Hadoop origins and Timelines
Origins
In 1997, Doug Cutting, a co-founder of Hadoop, started working on project Lucene, which is a full-text search library. It was completely written in Java and is a full-text search engine. It analyzes text and builds an index on it. An index is just a mapping of text to locations, so it...