- Hadoop: The omnipresent Elephant
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Hadoop: The omnipresent Elephant
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Hadoop
is a name that you will see for many places in the next times, the
thread of the phenomenon big data. His logo is that yellow Elephant, the
favorite toy of the son of his original creator, Doug Cutting, when he
started his development.
Hadoop
is a digital development infrastructure created in open source under
the Apache license, a project built and used by a wide variety of
programmers using Java. Doug Cutting started his development when he was
in Yahoo! drawing on technologies released by Google, specifically
MapReduce and Google File System (GFS), in order to use it as a basis
for a distributed search engine. After dedicating full-time to its
development and converting Yahoo! to the main contributor to the
project, cutting left Yahoo! to join Clouda, a company whose product
offerings revolves around Hadoop.
What
is the importance of Hadoop? Basically, it allows to develop very
intensive tasks of massive computation, dividing in small pieces and
them in a whole as large as you want of machines: petabyte analysis of
data, in distributed environments formed by many simple machines: a
proposal of very reasonable value in the hyperconnected times that we
live, and that use up satiety companies like Google , Yahoo!, Tuenti,
Twitter, ebay or Facebook. But they are not the only ones: the use of
Hadoop is becoming popular at high speed in all types of companies.
Besides,
it's an interesting case, because your free license is making it
adopted by a large number of competitors, including the "usual suspects"
of large systems (Oracle, Dell, NetApp, EMC, etc.), which is leading to
an acceleration of both its dissemination and its benefits. If you are
in the world of corporate technology or preparing your professional
development within it, Hadoop is one of the areas that, depending on
your potential, you should definitely consider: sooner or later you'll
meet the elephant.
Update: If we say it before ... according to Slashdot, Hadoop is revealed as a very promising job market.
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