Hadoop technology: three major pilots

In the big Data age, Hadoop is the most common, and with the application of Hadoop technology, the focus on Hadoop has become a hot one.

Let's start with a little background: Hadoop belongs to the open source Apache project, and any user can download its core components for free-including Hadoop Common, Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), Hadoop yarn, and Hadoop MapReduce. Companies such as IBM, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Teradata are all trying to get Hadoop to be packaged and released into a more easy-to-use distribution or service project. Each business has a slightly different strategic orientation, but the core difference is that Hadoop has the ability to distribute workloads to thousands of server devices, which is the key to transforming large data into manageable data.

The following three companies are giants in the field of Hadoop technology.

IBM

When enterprise users think of large IT projects, the first thing that comes to mind is probably IBM's name. Because of this, IBM has not unexpectedly become one of the major players in the Hadoop project field. Forrester points out that IBM's Hadoop program is now deployed to the business environment of more than 100 customers, many of which have reached PB levels of data processing. The company uses its rich grid computing, global Data center, and enterprise-level program implementation experience to create its own large data projects. "The IBM roadmap includes further integration of the Biginsights Hadoop solution with IBM-related IT assets, such as SPSS advanced Analytics, High-performance computing workload management, business intelligence tools, and data management and modeling tools," Forrester explains.

Intel

Like Amazon Web Services, Intel has optimized its own version of Hadoop and made it run on its own hardware architecture, especially the Xeon Chip. For customers who want to maximize the potential of the Hadoop system and find the best fit between software and hardware, Intel's Hadoop release is probably the ideal choice. Forrester noted that since Intel had only recently launched such products, the company hoped to make more innovative efforts on the basis of similar existing solutions in the market. Intel and Microsoft have both gained a "strong performer" rating in the Hadoop market, while the other seven older vendors are known as "market leaders".

Microsoft

Historically, Microsoft is certainly not a company that is willing to embrace Open-source software, but in the face of the surging tide of big data, Microsoft has taken the leap, not only to allow Hadoop to operate in Windows, but also to contribute to the wider development of the Hadoop ecosystem through code contributions. This toil also bear fruitful fruit, Microsoft Public Cloud Windows Azure among the Hdinsight products is the best proof. This is a service product based on the Hortonworks release platform, but specifically designed for Azure.

Microsoft has also launched a number of exciting projects, including the polybase features that are ready to be used, designed to allow users to search through Hadoop queries for data in SQL Server. "Microsoft has launched outstanding solutions in databases, data warehousing, Cloud, OLAP, business intelligence, spreadsheets (POWERPIVOT), collaboration, and development tools markets, which enable it to bring a more powerful and fast-growing Hadoop product stack for Microsoft customers," Forrester says. Similar to Intel, Microsoft is listed as a "strong performer" rather than a "market leader".

D1net Comments:

Whether IBM or Intel or Microsoft, in the field of Hadoop is the best, the three giants are also the most noteworthy enterprise Hadoop technology, as the application of Hadoop technology gradually deepened, more Hadoop enterprises will emerge, the future of the Hadoop field will be a free-for-all situation.