I came across a great page describing Hadoop map-reduce and HDFS architecture.
The page presents some of the following details:
- HDFS responsibilities and execution flows
- Key characteristics of Map-Reduce lifecycle
- A sample example related with web crawler and Hadoop Map-reduce setup
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I found it very helpful. However the differences are not too understandable for me