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Hadoop is rubbish and users up in arms

by on27 March 2017


New report shows


A happy Hadoop customer is rarer than an intelligent, charismatic politician, according to a new Datanami report.

For those who came in late Hadoop was the first widely-adopted open source distributed computing platform.

However the report suggests that the software is only much chop if you are a data scientist who knows how to code in MapReduce or Pig.

The higher you go up the stack, the abstraction layers can’t enable business analysts to get at the data.

Bob Muglia, CEO of Snowflake Computing, which develops and runs a cloud-based relational data warehouse outfit told Slashdot that he could not find a happy Hadoop customer.

“It's very clear to me, technologically, that it's not the technology base the world will be built on going forward. Thanks to better mousetraps like S3 (for storage) and Spark (for processing), Hadoop will be relegated to niche and legacy statuses,” Muglia said.

He said that customers who have successfully tamed Hadoop is less than 20 and it might be less than 10.

Facebook is supposed to be a Hadoop fan but apparently, insiders see it as a historical glitch. Hadoop's strengths lie in serving as a cheap storage repository and for processing ETL batch workloads. But it is pants when it comes to running interactive, user-facing applications.

The alternative is Apache Kafka, whose creator started off running Hadoop clusters at LinkedIn but thought the operating system was too complicated to build on.

Last modified on 27 March 2017
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