Hadoop: Its Inventor Speaks
May 18, 2015
I must have my wires crossed about Hadoop. I thought other folks were the creators of what became Hadoop. I read “Where Next for Hadoop? An Interview with Co-Creator Doug Cutting” to get my memory refreshed. (Note: you may have to register or pay to view the full text of this interview.)
According to the article Doug Cutting and mike Cafarella cooked up Hadoop in 2005. Cutting now works at Cloudera, which, according to Crunchbase, is
an enterprise software company that provides Apache Hadoop-based software and training to data-driven enterprises. –
You can find some objective analyses of the company and its technology at http://bit.ly/1desDEN. I use the term “objective” to mean written by mid tier consultants.
I highlighted this statement:
Hadoop is already much more versatile and user-friendly than it was in the early days and innovations such as Yarn, Impala and Spark as well as a hardening of the platform’s security have all made it more “enterprise ready” too…
To underscore the user friendliness of Hadoop I circled in high intensity pink:
Asked whether some IT people are so bowled over by the number and choice of big data tools that they neglect to think how they will use them, Cutting agrees that this can be the case, but says that as use cases grow this issue will diminish. “It’s in an early stage of maturity so that’s not unexpected, but I think over time people are going to think about the functionality you’ve got in the distribution. You could have a SQL engine for analytics queries. You’ve got a NoSQL engine for reporting queries,” he says. So are companies like Cloudera, which, thanks to support from the likes of Intel (see below) and its vast marketing budget, distracting the market from the bigger picture? “There is confusion but I think it’s mostly because people are new to it and do not have much experience,” Cutting says.
And a final snippet:
Mostly I think this mantle of open and standard is deceptive. It is neither open in that everybody’s really invited on equal terms to play, nor is it a standard. It’s a minority of people out there.”
There are other comments about Hadoop. I will leave them to you. Easy to use, not confusing, and no problems with open and standard. There are many consulting firms thrilled with Hadoop. Snap it in and dig into data. Versatile too.
Stephen E Arnold, May 18, 2015
Comments
-
- Subscribe to Beyond Search
Feature archive
News archive
-
