Big Data Technology & Architecture

Jan 22, 2021 · Big Data

Key New Features and Improvements in Hadoop 3.x

Hadoop 3.x upgrades the platform to JDK 1.8 and introduces a range of enhancements across common components, HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce, including erasure coding, multi‑NameNode high availability, cgroup‑based resource isolation, native map‑output collectors, and split client libraries, while also adding support for Azure and Aliyun distributed file systems.