Monday, April 13, 2009

Large Data Set Analysis in the Cloud: Amazon, Cloudera Improve Hadoop: New appraoch to BI and Data Warehousing?

Traditional business intelligence solutions can't scale to the degree necessary in today's data environment. One solution getting a lot of attention recently: Hadoop, an open-source product inspired by Google's search architecture. There has not been lots of innovation around data warehousing and business intelligence in the past 20 years and only time will tell when a new approach for data modeling will apprear in the horizon. This product - Hadoop - is not inspired by preexisting commerical BI or data warehousing products (such as Pentaho) but is based on a completely new approach.

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