SHARE
Follow this article on Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Bookmark and Share
Home >> Information Architecture

Should Hadoop come out of open source?

Should Hadoop come out of open source?

By:  Dave Webb  On: 22 Aug 2012 For: Computing Canada Creator
 

IT WORLD CANADA CURATED Zettaset's CTO says the Hadoop community is focused on its own needs, not the needs of the enterprise. Is that such a bad thing?

Linux Insider reports that Zettaset CTO Brian Christian believes that big data framework Hadoop should come out of open source in order to be more useful to the enterprise.
 
 
The open source model serves the development community, not the needs of enterprises. Meanwhile, enterprises have the money to invest in innovation based on their needs, according to Christian.

There are certainly pain points with Hadoop -- the volume of machines involved, the specialist nature of the skill set, the multiple copies of data -- but none of those is better served by commercializing Hadoop.
 
RELATED ARTICLES
Most firms have no big data plans: Survey


Those same enterprises that have the wherewithal to develop Hadoop to meet their needs have the wherewithal to hire and train the necessary staff to do so. And an open source Hadoop is an opportunity for specialized third-party development and support offerings.
 
 
 

Sign up for our Newsletters
Tags: big data

 












Print |  Views: 4677   |   Rating:offoffoffoffoff  (0 votes)
Rate this article on a scale of
1 to 5 stars,5 being the best.




Dave Webb Dave Webb Dave Webb is a journalist of 20 years experience in newspapers and magazines. He has followed technology exclusively since 1998 and was the winner of the Andersen Consulting Award for Excell... more

Recent Canadian IT Jobs




blog comments powered by Disqus