I have collected information to provide an overview of Hadoop component and hadoop versions.

1. HDFS, Map Reduce & Hadoop 1.0 Vs 2.0 Overview
HDFS Architecture
 HDFS stands for Hadoop Distributed File System
 HDFS was originally built as infrastructure forthe Apache Nutch web search engine project
 HDFS is now an Apache Hadoop sub project
 A typical file in HDFS is gigabytes to terabytes in size
 HDFS applications need a write-once-read-many access model for files. This assumption
simplifies data coherency issues and enables high throughput data access
 HDFS has master/slave architecture: NameNode/Datanode
 An HDFS cluster consists of a single NameNode and a number of Datanode
 The NameNode and Datanode are pieces of softwaredesigned to run on commodity machines.
These machines typically run a GNU/Linux operating system (OS)
 Datanode, usually one per node in the cluster, whichmanage storage attached to the nodes that
they run on. They are responsible for serving read and write requests from the file system’s
clients. They also perform blockcreation, deletion, and replication upon instruction fromthe
NameNode.
 HDFS exposes a file system namespace and allows user data tobe stored in files. Internally, a file
is split into one or more blocks and these blocksare stored in a set of Datanode
NameNode
Namenode holds the Meta data for the HDFS like Namespace information, block information etc. When
in use, all this information is stored in main memory. But this information also stored in disk for
persistence storage.

2. The above image shows how Name Node stores information in disk.
Twodifferent files are
 fsimage - It’s the snapshot of the file system when Namenode started
 Edit logs - It’s the sequence of changes made tothe file system after Namenode started
Only in the restart of Namenode, edit logs are applied to fsimage to get the latest snapshot of the file
system. But Namenode restart are rare in production clusters which means edit logs can grow very
large for the clusters where Namenode runs for a long period of time. The following issues we will
encounter in this situation.
 Edit log become very large , which willbe challenging to manage it
 Namenode restart takes long time because lot of changes has to be merged
 In the case of crash, we willlost huge amount of metadata since fsimage is very old
So to overcome this issues we need a mechanism which will help us reduce the edit log size which is
manageable and have up to date fsimage ,so that load on Namenode reduces . It’s very similar to
Windows Restore point, which will allow us to take snapshot of the OS so that if something goes wrong,
we can fall back to the last restore point.
So now we understood NameNode functionality and challenge to keep the Meta data up to date. So what
is this all have to withSecondary Namenode?
Secondary Namenode
Secondary Namenode helps to overcomethe aboveissues by taking over responsibility of merging edit
logs withfsimage from the Namenode.
The above figure shows the workingof Secondary Namenode
 It gets the edit logs from the Namenode in regular intervals and applies to fsimage
 Once it has new fsimage, it copies back to Namenode
 Namenode will use this fsimage for the next restart, whichwill reduce the start-up time

3. Secondary Namenode whole purpose is to have a checkpoint in HDFS. It’s just a helper node for
Namenode. That’s why it also known as checkpoint node inside the community.
So we now understood all Secondary Namenode does put a checkpoint in file system which will help
Namenode to function better. It’s not the replacement or backup for the Namenode. So from now on
make a habit of calling it as a checkpoint node.
MapReduce
Mapreduce is a framework using which we can write applications to process huge amounts of data, in
parallel, on large clusters of commodity hardware in a reliable manner.
Mapreduce is a processing technique and a program model for distributed computing based on java.
The Mapreduce algorithm contains two important tasks, namely Map and Reduce. Map takes a set of
data and converts it into another set of data, where individual elements are broken down into tuples
(key/value pairs). Secondly, reduce task, which takes the output from a map as an input and combines
those data tuples into a smaller set of tuples. As the sequence of the name Mapreduce implies, the
reduce task is always performed after the map job.
Mapreduce program executes in three stages, namely map stage, shuffle stage, and reduce stage.
 Map stage: The map or mapper’s job is to process the input data. Generally the input data
is in the form of file or directory and is stored in the Hadoop file system (HDFS). The input
file is passed to the mapper function line by line. The mapper processes the data and
creates several small chunks of data.
 Reduce stage: This stage is the combination of the Shuffle stage and the Reduce stage.
The Reducer’s job is to process the data that comes from the mapper. After processing, it
produces a new set of output, which will be stored in the HDFS.
During a Mapreduce job, Hadoop sends the Map and Reduce tasks to the appropriate servers in the
cluster. The framework manages all the details of data-passing such as issuing tasks, verifying task
completion, and copying data around the cluster between the nodes. Most of the computing takes place
on nodes with data on local disks that reduces the network traffic. After completion of the given tasks,
the cluster collects and reduces the data to form an appropriate result, and sends it back to the Hadoop
server.

4. Timelines
Year Month Event
2003 October Google File System paper released
2006 January Hadoop is born from Nutch 197
2006 February Hadoop is named after Cutting's son's yellow plush toy
2006 April Hadoop 0.1.0 released
2006 April Hadoop sorts 1.8 TB on 188 nodes in 47.9 hours
2008 March First Hadoop Summit
2008 April
Hadoop world record fastest system to sort a terabyte of data. Running on a 910-
node cluster, Hadoop sorted one terabyte in 209 seconds
2008 May Hadoop wins TeraByte Sort (World Record sortbenchmark.org)
2008 July Hadoop wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark
2008 November Google MapReduce implementation sorted one terabyte in 68 seconds
2009 May Yahoo! used Hadoop to sort one terabyte in 62 seconds
2012 November Apache Hadoop 1.0 Available
Hadoop1VsHadoop2

5. S
No
Hadoop1 Hadoop2
2 MR does both processing and cluster-
resource management.
YARN (YetAnother Resource Negotiator) does
cluster resource management and processing is
done using different processing models.
3 Has limited scaling of nodes. Limited to 4000
nodes per cluster
Has better scalability. Scalable up to 10000
nodes per cluster
4 Works on concepts of slots – slots can run
either a Map task or a Reduce task only.
Works on concepts of containers. Using
containers can run generic tasks.
5 A single Namenode to manage the entire
namespace.
Multiple Namenode servers manage multiple
namespaces.
6 Has Single-Point-of-Failure (SPOF) – because
of single Namenode- and in the case
of Namenode failure, needs manual
intervention to overcome.
Has to feature to overcomeSPOF witha standby
Namenode and in the case of Namenode failure,
it is configured forautomatic recovery.
7 MR API is compatible withHadoop1x. A
program written in Hadoop1 executes
in Hadoop1x without any additional files.
MR API requires additional files for a program
written in Hadoop1x to execute in Hadoop2x.
9 A Namenode failure affectsthe stack. The Hadoop stack – Hive, Pig, HBase etc. are all
equipped to handle Namenode failure.