Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Hadoop got its start in Nutch. A few of us were attempting to build an open sourceweb search engine and having trouble managing computations running on even ahandful of computers. Once Google published its GFS and MapReduce papers, theroute became clear. They’d devised systems to solve precisely the problems we werehaving with Nutch. So we started, two of us, half-time, to try to re-create these systemsas a part of Nutch.