Apache Hadoop turns 10

Happy birthday Apache Hadoop!Ten years ago, on Jan. 28, 2006, Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella split the distributed file system and MapReduce facility from their open source Web crawler project (Apache Nutch) and spun it off as a subproject called Hadoop. The subproject was named after Cutting's son's stuffed elephant toy.Cloudera Hadoop project co-creator Doug Cutting.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here