DB Vendors on Hadoop
Paul Barmaksezian
Jan 12th, 2010
The reaction to the hype of Hadoop is starting to get interesting … Computerworld has a great new article on what the big DB vendors are saying about the mass movement into Hadoop and its complimentary technologies. Very interesting read.
I especially enjoyed the link to Oracle’s in-database MapReduce example. Though I find it a really useful tool (using table functions to parallelize workload), it seems a bit odd to consider it a replacement to Hadoop. I mean, it’s still executing the processes on a completely different architecture (shared storage vs Hadoop’s shared nothing with HDFS replication, fault tolerance, etc).
In any case, check out the article, it’s a fun read.
