In our ever-connected world where social media platforms, messaging apps, e-commerce platforms, mobile apps and more generate vast amount of different types of data in real-time and from anywhere, Hadoop as a data storage processing system is a henceforth a game changer.
In fact, the exploding
big data from the web and mobile has generated huge opportunities for storage
and analytics software. Complex datasets are generated in almost all business
activities.
For those who are unfamiliar, Hadoop is a data storage processing system that enables data storage,
file sharing, data analytics etc. The technology is scalable & enables
effective analysis of data.
Hadoop as a solution is increasingly offering data retrieval and
data security features; and its impact is leading inter alia to enhanced
solution to database management systems (DBMS).
According to Research and Markets, big users of Hadoop include Cloudera, Facebook,
Yahoo, Hortonworks, IBM, Amazon, Intel, Mapr and Microsoft.
This technology can facilitate its users to handle more data through enhanced storage
capacity also enables data retrieval in case of hardware failure.
The firm also reveals that, Hadoop software is the highest growing market
in comparison to hardware and services. In terms of geographical segmentation,
North America expected to lead the revenues in this market due to higher rate
of technology adoption.
It is also indispensable to recall that, Hadoop has the ability to handle all types of
data from every type of systems. It can let you to store data but also to
reveal insights by establishing relationships between different data sets.