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The following page has been changed by SteveLoughran: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ProjectDescription The comment on the change is: improving the intro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Introduction = Hadoop was originally built as infrastructure for the [http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ Nutch] project, which crawls the web and builds a search engine index for the crawled pages. Both Hadoop and Nutch are part of the [http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html Lucene] [http://www.apache.org/ Apache] project. + + It provides a distributed filesystem (HDFS) that can store data across thousands of servers, and a means of running work (Map/Reduce jobs) across those machines, running the work near the data. == Hadoop Map/Reduce ==
