Who Can Use Hadoop?
February 24th, 2010 . by adminHadoop is an open-source software project that was developed to support data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. In basic terms, it is a way to distribute high volumes of data throughout a cluster of computers to process the information quickly and efficiently. It allows applications to deal with thousands of nodes and petabytes of information.
Who, exactly, can use a Hadoop system, though? What kind of company actually needs to process that kind of information? In truth, there are a wide range of companies and organization that can use Hadoop for both research and production purposes. Because of its open-source nature, any developer can start to modify it to conform to their own needs.
