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/

How relevant is NoSQL in the enterprise?

On Demand Watch our on-demand webcast where we look into whether NoSQL is a suitable fit for the enterprise.

Once upon a time, there was only one mainstream database architecture. Relational databases management systems (RDBMS), which stored information in tables and enabled access via a structured query language, were the only real show in town.

Then came NoSQL-based approaches, offering unprecedented scalability and alternative forms of access, which helped drive whole new ways of storing and querying information making viable a number of new workloads. Today, NoSQL is moving from specific use cases into more generally applicable areas and therefore broader deployments.

This raises a number of questions. What models are NoSQL approaches most appropriate for? What trade-offs have to be made relative to relational approaches? And what do decision-makers need to consider in advance so they don’t come unstuck down the line?

This is our last Regcast for 2015, and we promise give you answers to SQL or NoSQL questions.

Read More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/18/how_relevant_is_nosql_in_the_enterprise/