Why Hadoop?
For me, the question Why Hadoop? is not really a question. In the industry as of now, for big data Apache Hadoop is indispensable. There are alternatives, but most of them work in conjunction with Hadoop. Listed here are some of the prominent reasons why Hadoop is technology of choice for the technical capability that we are looking for in a Data Lake implementation:
- It can handle high volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data with ease.
- It is less costly to implement as it can start off using commodity hardware and scale according to organization all requirement.
- It has the ever growing Apache community to support it with frequent releases, releasing bug fixes and enhancements alike. Hadoop, as you know, has two core layers, namely the compute and data (HDFS) layers. The compute layer adds new frameworks and libraries, such as Pig and Hive, on top of the Hadoop ecosystem, making Hadoop all the more relevant for many use cases.
- The library of Hadoop itself is...