How Was Hadoop Developed

Hadoop was started with Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella in the year 2002 when they both started to work on Apache Nutch project. Apache Nutch project was the process of building a search engine system that can index 1 billion pages.

Who developed Hadoop why it is named as Hadoop?

Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat (2004) MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Google. This paper inspired Doug Cutting to develop an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework. He named it Hadoop, after his son’s toy elephant.

What is the purpose of Hadoop in the field of big data?

Hadoop is an open-source software framework for storing data and running applications on clusters of commodity hardware. It provides massive storage for any kind of data, enormous processing power and the ability to handle virtually limitless concurrent tasks or jobs.