The client-server model transformed the data industry because it helped break apart overloaded systems, however, client-server models of the 1980s wouldn’t be able to handle the processing required for big data. Along Comes Google. As an answer to some of the biggest limitations of early client-server models, such as long processing time, frequent system overload, and client-servers bottleneck, Google created the Google File System (GFS). The GFS was groundbreaking because it used industry-standard hardware on a large scale. It broke up data into chunks on nodes all over the world. With this model, data isn’t centralized in the way it…...
An Introduction to Hadoop for Noobs
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