what is NameNode in Hadoop?



what is NameNode in Hadoop?..

Answer / Rakesh Chauhan

NameNode is the central management node in Hadoop's HDFS file system. It maintains the namespace tree and metadata of all files, as well as the mapping between data blocks and DataNodes.

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