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What is Hadoop?

Hadoop is an open source software from Apache, supporting distributed processing and data storage. Hadoop is popular for its scalability, reliability, and functionality available across commoditized hardware.

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May 16, 2018
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Hadoop is an open source software from Apache, supporting distributed processing and data storage. Hadoop is popular for its scalability, reliability, and functionality available across commoditized hardware.

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The most common users of Hadoop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Hadoop has been widely adopted by organizations for various use cases. One of its key use cases is in storing and analyzing log data, financial data from systems like JD Edwards, and retail catalog and session data for an omnichannel experience. Users have found that Hadoop's distributed processing capabilities allow for efficient and cost-effective storage and analysis of large amounts of data. It has been particularly helpful in reducing storage costs and improving performance when dealing with massive data sets. Furthermore, Hadoop enables the creation of a consistent data store that can be integrated across platforms, making it easier for different departments within organizations to collect, store, and analyze data. Users have also leveraged Hadoop to gain insights into business data, analyze patterns, and solve big data modeling problems. The user-friendly nature of Hadoop has made it accessible to users who are not necessarily experts in big data technologies. Additionally, Hadoop is utilized for ETL processing, data streaming, transformation, and querying data using Hive. Its ability to serve as a large volume ETL platform and crunching engine for analytical and statistical models has attracted users who were previously reliant on MySQL data warehouses. They have observed faster query performance with Hadoop compared to traditional solutions. Another significant use case for Hadoop is secure storage without high costs. Hadoop efficiently stores and processes large amounts of data, addressing the problem of secure storage without breaking the bank. Moreover, Hadoop enables parallel processing on large datasets, making it a popular choice for data storage, backup, and machine learning analytics. Organizations have found that it helps maintain and process huge amounts of data efficiently while providing high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Hadoop's versatility extends beyond commercial applications—it is also used in research computing clusters to complete tasks faster using the MapReduce framework. Finally, the Systems and IT department relies on Hadoop to create data pipelines and consult on potential projects involving Hadoop. Overall, the use cases of Hadoop span across industries and departments, providing valuable solutions for data collection, storage, and analysis.

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April 11, 2022

Hadoop: A Robust Big Data Platform

Kunal Sonalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kunal Sonalkar
Data Research Analyst
Southwest Florida Water Management District (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Hadoop is very well suited for big data modeling problems in various industries like finance, insurance, healthcare, automobiles, CRM, etc. In every industry where you need data analysis in real time, Hadoop is a perfect fit in terms of storage, analysis, retrieval, and processing. It won't be a very good tool to perform ETL (Extract Transform Load) techniques though.
August 17, 2021

Great enterprise tool for handling large data

Chantel Moreno | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chantel Moreno
Finance & Accounting Professional
Fagron (Pharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Apache Hadoop is majorly suited for companies that have large amounts of unstructured data flow like advertising and even web traffic so I feel that Hadoop is a great option when you have the extra bulk of data that is required to be stored and processed on a continuous basis. Moreover, I do recommend Hadoop but at the same time, I would also hope and suggest that the software of Hadoop gets supplemented with a faster and interactive database so that the overall querying service gets better.
July 21, 2021

Good tool for unstructured data

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Peter Suter
Senior Software Engineer (GUI)
SIX (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Altogether, I want to say that Apache Hadoop is well-suited to a larger and unstructured data flow like an aggregation of web traffic or even advertising. I think Apache Hadoop is great when you literally have petabytes of data that need to be stored and processed on an ongoing basis. Also, I would recommend that the software should be supplemented with a faster and interactive database for a better querying service. Lastly, it's very cost-effective so it is good to give it a shot before coming to any conclusion.
May 20, 2021

Good solution for storing and processing large data

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Analyst in Marketing
Internet Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
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If you have petabytes of data that you need to store and process on a regular basis and don't mind having to wait minutes for your queries to run, Apache Hadoop is great for that use case. I would supplement it with another faster interactive database for interactive querying.
January 16, 2021

Apache Hadoop Can Save on the Headaches

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Joe Hughes
Senior DevOps Engineer
Simpli.fi (Online Media, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
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Apache Hadoop (and its subsequent add-ons) are well-suited to larger, unstructured data flows, such as aggregation of web traffic or advertising. Geospatial algorithms and their outputs are well-suited for this kind of aggregation as structuring that data is challenging, but leaving it unstructured and performing queries as-needed is a better fit for most business models. With the advent of data science, I would expect Hadoop fits a LOT of their initial outputs quite well.
September 21, 2020

Hadoop -- Great Value for What You Pay

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Blake Baron
Senior Financial Analyst
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
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Need cheap enterprise-level storage for data that is necessary to keep but isn't regularly accessed? Hadoop is the option for you. If you regularly have analysts or apps accessing the data warehouse, look for something more premium such as Teradata. The good news is that general SQL knowledge transfers well to this warehouse.
September 20, 2020

Fault Tolerance and High Availablility Made Easy with Hadoop

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Gene Baker
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Hadoop is easy to use. It is a scalable and cost-effective solution for working with large data sets. Hadoop accepts data from a variety of disparate data sources, such as social media feeds, structured or unstructured data, XML, text files, images, etc. Hadoop is also highly available and fault-tolerant, supporting multiple standby NameNodes. The performance of Hadoop is also good because it stores data in a distributed fashion allowing for distributed processing and lower run times. And Hadoop is open-source, making the source code available for modification if necessary. Hadoop also supports multiple languages like C/C++, Python, and Groovy.
June 05, 2019

Hadoop vs. Alternatives

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Executive in Professional Services
Information Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Massive processing in a distributed environment with data that can be distributed. Research environments. Lab environments would also be a good use for Hadoop. Hadoop can also be used in support of Spark environments and used by Frameworks if deployed properly. The best scenario is with a Data Scientist that understands how to program appropriately.
May 16, 2018

Hadoop Review

Kartik Chavan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kartik Chavan
Peer Educator (Tutor) & Supplemental Instructions (SI) Leader
The University of Texas at Arlington (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
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Hadoop helps us tackle our problem of maintaining and processing a huge amount of data efficiently. High availability, scalability and cost efficiency are the main considerations for implementing Hadoop as one of the core solutions in our big-data infrastructure. Where relational databases fall short with regard to tuning and performance, Hadoop rises to the occasion and allows for massive customization leveraging the different tools and modules. We use Hadoop to input raw data and add layers of consolidation or analysis to make business decisions about disparate data points.

March 28, 2018

Great Option for Unstructured Data

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Bharadwaj (Brad) Chivukula
Sr. Engineering Manager/Delivery Manager
Nisum Technologies, Inc. (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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  • Less appropriate for small data sets
  • Works well for scenarios with bulk amount of data. They can surely go for Hadoop file system, having offline applications
  • It's not an instant querying software like SQL; so if your application can wait on the crunching of data, then use it
  • Not for real-time applications
January 04, 2018

Hadoop is pretty Badass

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Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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When we have data coming in from various sources, using hadoop is a good call. Its a good central station to take a good look at your data and see what needs to be done.
Hadoop should not be used directly for Real time Analytics. HDFS should be used to store data and we could use Hive to query the files.
Hadoop needs to be understood thoroughly even before attempting to use it for data warehousing needs. So you may need to take stock of what Hadoop provides, and read up on its accompanying tools to see what fits your needs.
December 13, 2017

Hadoop: Highly available, scalable and cost effective for big data storage and processing.

Johanes Siregar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Johanes Siregar
Big Data Analytics - Data Engineer
Telkomsel (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
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Hadoop is well suited for internal projects in a secure environment without any external exposure. It also excels well in storing and processing large amounts of data. It is also suitable to be implemented as a data repository for data-intensive applications which require high data availability, a significant amount of memory and huge processing power. However, it is not appropriate to implement as a near real-time solution which needs a high response time with a high number of high transactions per seconds.
October 24, 2017

Hadoop for Justifying Business Decisions with Hard Data

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Engineer in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Hadoop is well suited for organizations with a lot of data, trying to justify business decisions with data-driven KPIs and milestones. This tool is best utilized by engineers with data modeling experience and a high-level understanding of how the different data points can be used and correlated. It will be challenging for people with limited knowledge of the business and how data points are created.
June 03, 2016

A newbie's look at Hadoop

Mark Gargiulo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mark Gargiulo
Senior Automation Engineer
NTENT (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
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Hadoop is not for the faint of heart and is not a technology per se but an ecosystem of disparate technologies sitting on top of HDFS. It is certainly powerful but if, like me, you were handed this with no prior knowledge or experience using or administering this ecosystem the learning curve can be significant and ongoing having said that I don't think currently there are many other opensource technologies that can provide the flexibility in the "big data" arena especially for ETL or machine learning.
May 26, 2016

Experience with Hadoop by a novice user.

Muhammad Fazalul Rahman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Muhammad Fazalul Rahman
Research Assistant
Rochester Institute of Technology (Research, 1-10 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
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If the user is trying to complete a task quickly and efficiently, then Hadoop is the best option for them. However, it may happen that the deadline for the submission is close and the user has little or no knowledge of Hadoop. In this case, it is easier not to use hadoop since it takes time to learn.
May 25, 2016

Hadoop is the Perfect Enterprise tool for Big Data

Tom Thomas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tom Thomas
Student Lab Instructor (SLI) for Computer Science II
Rochester Institute of Technology (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Hadoop is a very powerful tool that can be used in almost any environment where huge scale processing of data across clusters is required. It provides multiple modules such as HDFS and MapReduce that will make managing and analyzing said data reliable and efficient. Hadoop is a new and constantly evolving tool, and hence it needs users to be on top of it all the time.
February 23, 2016

Hadoop quick review

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Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Data is growing and grows fast. A relationship database can't hold this requirement any more. Real-time applications and distributed design are required for highly scalability and fault tolerance.
December 04, 2015

A very generic Hadoop review

Pierre LaFromboise | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pierre LaFromboise
Senior Principal Consultant, BI Service Line Lead
Oakwood Systems Group (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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A big data problem doesn't always mean huge volumes of data. The other V's of big data (velocity and variety) are also important factors that may lead to selecting Hadoop as a platform.
December 01, 2015

Hadoop - Effective tool for large scale distributed processing.

Mrugen Deshmukh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mrugen Deshmukh
Senior Software Engineer
San Jose State University (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
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1. How large are your data sets? If your answer is few gigabytes, Hadoop may be overkill for your needs.
2. Do you require real-time analytical processing? If yes, Hadoop's map reduce may not be a great asset in that scenario.
3. Do you want to want to process data in a batch processing fashion and scale for TeraBytes size clusters? Hadoop is definitely a great fit for your use case.
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