Stratosphere can run without a Hadoop installation. However, a very common setup is to use Stratosphere to analyze data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). To make these setups work out of the box, we bundle the Hadoop client libraries with Stratosphere by default.

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Notes: 
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