![[Screenshot 2025-07-23 at 12.20.09.png | 400]] > Hadoop is an **[[Open Source]] framework** for: > - **Distributed storage** (across many machines) > - **Distributed processing** (run programs on many machines in parallel) > > > It is **not a database** — it is an ecosystem for managing and analyzing **Big Data**. ## **Hadoop Components Overview** ![[Screenshot 2025-07-23 at 11.58.48.png ]] > 1. [[HDFS]] > 2. [[MapReduce]] > 3. [[Yarn]] [[Hadoop Eccosystem]]