What Operating System Does Hadoop Run on?
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Hadoop runs on Unix and on Windows. Linux is the only supported production platform, but other flavors of Unix (including Mac OS X) can be used to run Hadoop for development. Windows is only supported as a development platform and additionally requires Cygwin to run.

Which platform does Hadoop run on?

Apache Hadoop

Original author(s) Doug Cutting, Mike Cafarella
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Distributed file system
License Apache License 2.0

What type of system does Hadoop use?

Hadoop is an open-source, Java-based implementation of a clustered file system called HDFS, which allows you to do cost-efficient, reliable, and scalable distributed computing. The HDFS architecture is highly fault-tolerant and designed to be deployed on low-cost hardware.

Robert Thorne

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