Hadoop Overview

What is Hadoop

Hadoop is an open-source framework that allows to store and process big data in a distributed environment across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. 

Prerequisite

Before learning Hadoop, its good to have prior exposure to Core Java, database concepts, and any of the Linux operating system flavors to understand the concepts quickly however there is no issue for non-programming people those are willing to be a Hadoop Professional which may take couple of weeks more to understand the whole concept.