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Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say

posted by n1 on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-big-thing dept.

Fnord666 brings us this story from Datanami:

The Hadoop dream of unifying data and compute in a distributed manner has all but failed in a smoking heap of cost and complexity, according to technology experts and executives who spoke to Datanami.

"I can't find a happy Hadoop customer. It's sort of as simple as that," says Bob Muglia, CEO of Snowflake Computing, which develops and runs a cloud-based relational data warehouse offering. "It's very clear to me, technologically, that it's not the technology base the world will be built on going forward."

Thousands of organizations store huge amounts of data in Hadoop, and so Hadoop won't disappear overnight. After all, many companies still run mainframe applications that were originally developed half a century ago. But thanks to better mousetraps like S3 (for storage) and Spark (for processing), Hadoop will be relegated to niche and legacy statuses going forward, Muglia says.

"The number of customers who have actually successfully tamed Hadoop is probably less than 20 and it might be less than 10," Muglia says. "That's just nuts given how long that product, that technology has been in the market and how much general industry energy has gone into it."

Are any Soylentils using Hadoop, or deliberately using alternatives, for their Big Data needs?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:25PM (#485129)

    I have visibility into a lot of real-world installations of Hadoop, combined with (other technology, I won't tell you what, I'm not authorised to speak for my employers, blahblahblabh) and this is just not true.

    A large number of serious organisations put a lot of data into Hadoop installations, analyse it in a number of complex ways, and come out with answers that they desired. That's a success.

    Sure, Hadoop has limitations - most notably, it's an isolated bear of a thing to use - but it's quite good at what it does.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @03:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @03:16PM (#485193)

    Well, from the summary, emphasis by me:

    "I can't find a happy Hadoop customer. It's sort of as simple as that," says Bob Muglia, CEO of Snowflake Computing, which develops and runs a cloud-based relational data warehouse offering.

    CEO claims that software competing with their own offering is bad. News at 11.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:33PM (#485279)

      yep, sounds like fud to me.