What do you mean by metadata in Hadoop?



What do you mean by metadata in Hadoop?..

Answer / Aditya Nand Modanwal

Metadata in Hadoop refers to data that describes other data. In the context of HDFS, it includes information about files and directories such as their names, replication status, permissions, ownership, blocks locations, and timestamps.

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