Monday 1 February 2016

Hadoop turns 10, Big Data industry rolls along

It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google's File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week.

The technology, originally part of Apache Nutch, an even older open source project for Web crawling, was separated out into its own project in 2006, when a team at Yahoo was dispatched to accelerate its development.

Proud dad weighs in

Doug Cutting, founder of both projects (as well as Apache Lucene), formerly of Yahoo, and presently Chief Architect at Cloudera, wrote a blog post commemorating the birthday of the project, named after his son's stuffed elephant toy.

In his post, Cutting correctly points out that "Traditional enterprise RDBMS software now has competition: open source, big data software." The database industry had been in real stasis for well over a decade. Hadoop and NoSQL changed that, and got the incumbent vendors off their duffs and back in the business of refreshing their products with major new features.

Read More: http://www.zdnet.com/article/hadoop-turns-10-big-data-industry-rolls-along/

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