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Hadoop 2.x and its associated tools promise to deliver big data solutions not just to the IT-heavy big players, but to anyone with unstructured data and the need for multidimensional data analysis.

Hadoop version 2 expands Hadoop beyond MapReduce and opens the door to MPI applications operating on large parallel data stores.

Hadoop has been growing clusters in data centers at a rapid pace. Is Hadoop the new corporate HPC?

Enterprises like Google and Facebook use the map–reduce approach to process petabyte-range volumes of data. For some analyses, it is an attractive alternative to SQL databases, and Apache Hadoop exists as an open source implementation.