The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Hadoop 2.0 is now generally available. The update to the open source big data platform adds features like YARN, High Availability for Apache Hadoop HDFS, data snapshots for HDFS, NFS-v3 Access for HDFS, Windows support and more.
According to release manager Arun C. Murthy, “Hadoop 2 marks a major evolution of the open source project that has been built collectively by passionate and dedicated developers and committers in the Apache community who are committed to bringing greater usability and stability to the data platform.”