Who Loves Hadoop?

Who Loves Hadoop?

This article was very interesting to me considering my final paper topic is on enterprise mashups. Hadoop is an open source software framework, which has recently gained a great deal of popularity.

"Hadoop changes the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing because it's scalable, cost effective, flexible and fault tolerant," IBM says. It is unique because it has no schema, therefore it can absorb any type of data from any number of sources. As the article explained, "when a node goes down, the system redirects work to another instance where the data is stored."

Users of Hadoop include: Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, HP, IBM and Apple. The problem with Hadoop however, is that it is driven by enthusiasts, so the deciation in personnel, training and machine costs is very expensive. As Steve Wooledge, senior director of marketing at Teradata Aster explained, "when people say it is free, it is free like a puppy, it requires some care and feeding."

The solution would be to take Hadoop out of the FOSS(Free and Open Source Software) fold.