[Beowulf] Interesting POV about Hadoop

Douglas Eadline deadline at eadline.org
Wed Jun 4 10:31:14 PDT 2014


And, I'm actually at Hadoop Summit today. I just saw
a demo of an Hadoop" application that does real-time
access to data using Excel. (A trucking company
monitoring their fleet and doing real-time queries of
past data when there are issues)

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Doug

> Interesting opinion on Hadoop:
>
> “The Google guys have to be just laughing in their beer right now
> because they invented MapReduce a decade ago to serve the data storage
> needs of the Google crawl of the Internet
 and moved all of that to Big
> Table,” Stonebraker says. “Why did they do that? Because MapReduce is a
> batch engine and they wanted their crawl database to be updatable, as
> they wanted to get Twitter feeds into it, in real time.”
>
> http://www.datanami.com/2014/04/09/array_databases_the_next_big_thing_in_data_analytics_/
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