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Welcome to Hadoop™ Common!

Hadoop Common is a set of utilities that support the Hadoop subprojects. Hadoop Common includes FileSystem, RPC, and serialization libraries.

Getting Started

To get started, begin here:

  1. Learn about Hadoop by reading the documentation.
  2. Download Hadoop from the release page.
  3. Discuss Hadoop on the mailing list.

Getting Involved

Hadoop Common is an open source volunteer project under the Apache Software Foundation. We encourage you to learn about the project and contribute your expertise. Here are some starter links:

  1. See our How to Contribute page.
  2. Give us feedback: What can we do better?
  3. Join the mailing list: Meet the community.