Business Intelligence Technology

October 13, 2010 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Business Intelligence Technology

October 13, 2010 – Hadoop began as a tool for indexing Web pages. Now the open source framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.

This news was brought to our attention by IDG news in their article, “Hadoop Pitched for Business Intelligence.” An increasing number of software companies are offering more support for the technology, which could attract more business users. For instance, Yahoo has just released a number of enhancements to make the technology more appropriate for enterprise use. Yahoo, in fact, is one of Hadoop’s biggest users. The company uses the technology in a variety of ways, including as a sort of a very large data warehouse.

However, Hadoop does have latency issues. Because of its distributed nature, Hadoop is not as fast as other business intelligence systems. They do argue that Hadoop should not be considered as an alternative to a transactional database system or a data warehouse, but rather something that can do tasks that these technologies would struggle to execute.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.