Best Big Data Processing Frameworks (2025)

Ranked picks for big data processing frameworks. No "it depends."

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Hadoop

The OG big data beast. It'll chew through petabytes, but good luck taming its complexity.

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Hadoop

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The OG big data beast. It'll chew through petabytes, but good luck taming its complexity.

Pros

  • +Massively scalable for batch processing of huge datasets
  • +Fault-tolerant with built-in data replication in HDFS
  • +Open-source and widely adopted with a large ecosystem

Cons

  • -High operational overhead and steep learning curve
  • -MapReduce is slow for real-time or iterative workloads

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