Summary of 10 Hadoop application scenarios

Who's using Hadoop? This is a problem. In the context of large data, Apache Hadoop has gradually become a label, the industry's understanding of this open source distributed technology is also deepening. But who is the biggest user of Hadoop? The first thought was of course its "birthplace", a large Internet search engine such as Google, and the Yahoo ad Analytics system. You might think that the area where the Hadoop platform works is the internet industry, which is designed to improve analysis performance and improve scalability. In fact, the application of Hadoop is much more than that, and digging into it will find that Hadoop can play a huge role in many places.

Gigaom, a columnist for the famous American Science and technology blog, Derrick Harris has been tracking cloud computing and Hadoop for years, and has summed up 10 Hadoop scenarios in a recent article, sharing the following:

Online travel: You know, 80% of online travel sites around the world are currently using the Hadoop distributions provided by Cloudera companies, including Expedia, where Searchbi has reported.

Mobile data: Cloudera operations director said that 70% of the U.S. smartphone data services are backed by Hadoop, that is, including data storage and wireless operator data processing, are using Hadoop technology.

E-commerce: This scenario should be very certain, and ebay is one of the biggest practitioners. Domestic electric dealers in the Hadoop technology is also very strong reserves.

Energy extraction: Chevron is America's second-largest oil company, and its head of IT department introduced Chevron's experience with Hadoop, which uses Hadoop to collect and process data, which are seismic data from the ocean, so they can locate oil deposits.

Energy Saving: Another energy provider, Opower, is also using Hadoop to provide consumers with electricity-saving services, with a predictive analysis of the user's electricity bill.

Infrastructure management: This is a very basic scenario where users can use Hadoop to collect and analyze data from servers, switches, and other devices.

Image processing: Start-up company Skybox Imaging uses Hadoop to store and process image data, and to detect geographic changes from high-definition images taken from satellites.

Fraud detection: This scene is less user contact, general financial services or government agencies will use. Using Hadoop to store all customer transaction data, including some unstructured data, can help organizations detect unusual customer activity and prevent fraud.

IT security: In addition to the management of enterprise IT infrastructure, Hadoop can also be used to process machine-generated data to identify attacks from malicious software or from the network.

Health care: The healthcare industry also uses Hadoop, and Watson, like IBM, uses the Hadoop cluster as the basis for its services, including advanced analysis techniques such as semantic analysis. The medical establishment can use semantic analysis to provide medical personnel to patients and help doctors to better diagnose patients.