Accidentally I came over recently an Apache server technology for big data centralization and analysis. Hadoop is a mix and match technology, open source, which allows companies to write their own big data analytical tools in a quick and efficient manner.
What puzzled me mostly was the adoption of this type of open-source solution. You would think that the serious developers (such as SAS, IBM or Pentaho) would be reluctant to adopt open-source solutions. After all, look at what happened with the Goldman Sachs flash trading code (if you have not read the book “Flashboys”, maybe it is time to give it a try :)). But no, they are embracing it! I do not know if this is because they want a continuously developeable solution, a community pooling benefit or just something off-the-shelves, but here we go. Big data tools are not only very lean, but also based on a global creativity streak. Isn’t this interesting?