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The "ProjectDescription" page has been changed by GlenMazza: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ProjectDescription?action=diff&rev1=5&rev2=6 Comment: Removed old info about Hadoop's parent project. ## page was renamed from Description = 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. 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 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 ==
