Thread: Hadoop : A solution to BIG DATA ??

An open source project of the Apache Software Foundation. It provides a software framework for implementing and running applications on server clusters based on the Google Map-Reduce programming model and the related file system (GFS).
Hadoop is an open source framework written in Java. It efficiently manages large volumes of data in a large hardware cluster. Hadoop can be configured on a single machine, but the real power of Hadoop comes with a set of machines, which can be developed from a single machine to thousands of nodes.
Hadoop consists of two main parts,

• Hadoop distributes the file system (HDFS)
• Map-Reduce.

Exactly what are the solutions provide by Hadoop ??

Originally Posted by Shivani

The ORACLE R ENTERPRISE product offers direct integration into the Oracle database, as well as Hadoop, enabling R scripts to run on data without having to round-trip it out of the data stores.

Oracle R Enterprise will a sub solution for Hadoop, But I really wish to know more about exactly what can be done using Hadoop.