The first alpha release of Hadoop version 3.0.0 was on 30 August 2016. It was called version 3.0.0-alpha1. This was the first alpha release in a series of planned alphas and betas that ultimately led to 3.0.0 GA. The intention behind this alpha release was to quickly gather and act on feedback from downstream users.
With any such releases, there are some key drivers that lead to its birth. These key drivers create benefits that will ultimately help in the better functioning of Hadoop-augmented enterprise applications. Before we discuss the features of Hadoop 3, you should understand these driving factors. Some driving factors behind the release of Hadoop 3 are as follows:
- A lot of bug fixes and performance improvements: Hadoop has a growing open source community of developers regularly adding major/minor changes or improvements...
