diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/hadoop/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/hadoop/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7d475a67558
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/hadoop/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, which, jre, bash }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  name = "hadoop-2.0.1-alpha";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://apache/hadoop/common/${name}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "4e5f4fa1574ee58fd6d59a220b66578fc2cf62c229120eeed07f2880c86f0e59";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    for n in "bin/"* "sbin/"*; do
+      sed -i $n -e "s|#!/usr/bin/env bash|#! ${bash}/bin/bash|"
+    done
+    patchelf --set-interpreter "$(cat $NIX_GCC/nix-support/dynamic-linker)" bin/container-executor
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    mv *.txt share/doc/hadoop/
+    mv * $out
+
+    for n in $out/{bin,sbin}"/"*; do
+      wrapProgram $n --prefix PATH : "${which}/bin:${jre}/bin:${bash}/bin" --set JAVA_HOME "${jre}" --set HADOOP_PREFIX "$out"
+    done
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://hadoop.apache.org/";
+    description = "framework for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for
+      the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of
+      computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to
+      scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each
+      offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on
+      hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is
+      designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer,
+      so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of
+      computers, each of which may be prone to failures.
+    '';
+
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b50adc5720b..630c69d8998 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2684,6 +2684,8 @@ let
 
   guile = guile_2_0;
 
+  hadoop = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/hadoop { };
+
   io = callPackage ../development/interpreters/io { };
 
   j = callPackage ../development/interpreters/j {};