Companies Run Hadoop Data Via the Cloud
August 13, 2014
Grazed from WSJ. Author: Steven Norton.
For enterprises dabbling with the Hadoop data analytics framework, on-premise is usually the route they choose. New research suggests it may be time to start thinking about Hadoop in the cloud.
The market for so-called “Hadoop as a Service” is projected to grow to $16.1 billion by 2020, according to a report from Allied Market Research. While the exact size of the market is hard to gauge, growing acceptance of cloud computing among CIOs signals that the growth trajectory is headed in a positive direction…
Hadoop is an open-source framework for processing and storing vast amounts of business data. It breaks data into manageable chunks that programmers can then structure, move into a relational database and study or visualize…
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