Hadoop was first released by Apache in 2011 as Version 1.0.0, which only contained HDFS and MapReduce. Hadoop was designed as both a computing (MapReduce) and storage (HDFS) platform from the very beginning. With the increasing need for big data analysis, Hadoop attracts lots of other software to resolve big data questions and merges into a Hadoop-centric big data ecosystem. The following diagram gives a brief overview of the Hadoop big data ecosystem in Apache stack:
![](/api/v2/epubs/9781788995092/files/assets/a64fec28-e2b2-42f0-96cf-098fe8385316.png)
In the current Hadoop ecosystem, HDFS is still the major option when using hard disk storage, and Alluxio provides virtually ...