Redefining Hadoop As A Recursive Acronym

Angus Kidman

Published 6 years ago: October 15, 2014 at 3:30 pm -

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Redefining Hadoop As A Recursive Acronym

I like this idea. Nobody remembers how big data platform Hadoop got its name (it was for a soft toy elephant owned by one of the creators), so why not make it a recursive acronym?

Picture: Susan Fitzgerald

Gartner analyst Merv Adrian suggests that Hadoop could logically stand for:

Hadoop
And
Diverse
Other
Operating
Platforms

Given the range of tools used in a typical Hadoop setup, this makes sense to us. Thoughts?

Hadoop Is A Recursive Acronym [Gartner Blogs]

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Angus Kidman | Lifehacker Editor

Angus has been writing professionally about technology since 1994 and breaking it for even longer. He is based in Sydney but spends a frankly unhealthy portion of his life on the road, tracking down the latest stories. In 2011, he won the IT Journo Award For Best Consumer Technology Journalist and Consensus IT Writers Award for Best Technical Writer for his work on Lifehacker; about time too.

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beers says:

October 15, 2014 at 4:01 pm

My main thought would be that this might have been more apt for your own personal twitter feed than for an ‘article’ 😛

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