Hadoop vs Db2 Big SQL | TrustRadius

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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 245 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 4 reviews and ratings

Pros

HDFS is reliable and solid, and in my experience with it, there are very few problems using it
Enterprise support from different vendors makes it easier to 'sell' inside an enterprise
It provides High Scalability and Redundancy
Horizontal scaling and distributed architecture

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Bharadwaj (Brad) Chivukula

Sr. Engineering Manager/Delivery Manager

Nisum Technologies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees

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data storage
data manipulation
data definitions
data reliability

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Database Administrator

RewardsLive.comInternet, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Hadoop is a batch oriented processing framework, it lacks real time or stream processing.
Hadoop's HDFS file system is not a POSIX compliant file system and does not work well with small files, especially smaller than the default block size.
Hadoop cannot be used for running interactive jobs or analytics.

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Mrugen Deshmukh

Senior Software Engineer

San Jose State UniversityComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cloud readiness.
Ease of implementation.

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Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Hadoop 9.6

Based on 8 answers

Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free

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Senior Vice President

IpsosInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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No score

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Usability

Hadoop 8.5

Based on 5 answers

Great! Hadoop has an easy to use interface that mimics most other data warehouses. You can access your data via SQL and have it display in a terminal before exporting it to your business intelligence platform of choice. Of course, for smaller data sets, you can also export it to Microsoft Excel.

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Senior Financial Analyst

Lowe's Companies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees

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Db2 Big SQL 8.0

Based on 1 answer

IBM DB2 is a solid service but hasn't seen much innovation over the past decade. It gets the job done and supports our IT operations across digital so it is fair.

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Database Administrator

RewardsLive.comInternet, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Hadoop 6.9

Based on 6 answers

We went with a third party for support, i.e., consultant. Had we gone with Azure or Cloudera, we would have obtained support directly from the vendor. my rating is more on the third party we selected and doesn't reflect the overall support available for Hadoop. I think we could have done better in our selection process, however, we were trying to use an already approved vendor within our organization. There is plenty of self-help available for Hadoop online.

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Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Db2 Big SQL 8.7

Based on 2 answers

IBM did a good job of supporting us during our evaluation and proof of concept. They were able to provide all necessary guidance, answer questions, help us architect it, etc. We were pleased with the support provided by the vendor. I will caveat and say this support was all before the sale, however, we have a ton of IBM products and they provide the same high level of support for all of them. I didn't see this being any different. I give IBM support two thumbs up!

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Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

Hadoop 6.1

Based on 2 answers

Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.

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Senior Vice President

IpsosInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Not used any other product than Hadoop and I don't think our company will switch to any other product, as Hadoop is providing excellent results. Our company is growing rapidly, Hadoop helps to keep up our performance and meet customer expectations. We also use HDFS which provides very high bandwidth to support MapReduce workloads.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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MS SQL Server was ruled out given we didn't feel we could collapse environments. We thought of MS-SQL as more of a one for one replacement for Sybase ASE, i.e., server for server. SAP HANA was evaluated and given a big thumbs up but was rejected because the SQL would have to be rewritten at the time (now they have an accelerator so you don't have to). Also, there was a very low adoption rate within the enterprise. IBM DB2 Big SQL was not selected even though technically it achieved high scores, because we could not find readily available talent and low adoption rate within the enterprise (basically no adoption at the time). We ended up selecting Exadata because of the high adoption rate within the enterprise even though technically HANA and Big SQL were superior in our evaluations.

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Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Hadoop has allowed us to scale out a few of our tier-1, customer facing applications to provide very fast access to reports and analytics.
Hadoop was easily implemented by our Linux team and onboarded by our Hadoop Admins.
Hadoop has been a very stable platform and only goes down due to server patching or other maintenance.

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Senior Network Administrator

Vizient, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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better data visibility
solid reliability for mission critical data

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Database Administrator

RewardsLive.comInternet, 51-200 employees

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