Apache Hadoop 2.4.0 significant improvements over the previous stable releases. This version has many improvements in HDFS and MapReduce. This how to guide will help you to install Hadoop 2.4.0 on CentOS 6.5 System. This article doesn’t includes overall configuration of hadoop, we have only basicconfiguration required to start working with hadoop.
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