Understanding Hadoop and Its Role in Big Data Analytics
In today’s digital world, data is growing at an unprecedented rate. Every second, businesses, websites, devices, and applications create streams of information — some structured, like spreadsheets, and a vast amount unstructured, like social media posts, sensor logs, or video files. To make sense of this data and turn it into actionable insights, organizations lean on advanced data analytics systems. One foundational technology that rose to prominence in this space is Hadoop — a distributed computing framework that changed how massive amounts of data are processed and analysed.
