Apache Hadoop vs. IBM Analytics Engine

Apache Hadoop (and its subsequent add-ons) are well-suited to larger, unstructured data flows, such as aggregation of web traffic or advertising. Geospatial algorithms and their outputs are well-suited for this kind of aggregation as structuring that data is challenging, but leaving it unstructured and performing queries as-needed is a better fit for most business models. With the advent of data science, I would expect Hadoop fits a LOT of their initial outputs quite well.

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We are at present utilizing IBM Analytics Engine and it works incredible. Following are the things that I like the most about this product is:- - Simple to Utilize - Reasonable Cost - With only a couple seconds you can ready to fabricate and convey groups - you can without much of a stretch break down information through different applications

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• HDFS is reliable and solid, and in my experience with it, there are very few problems using it
• Enterprise support from different vendors makes it easier to 'sell' inside an enterprise
• It provides High Scalability and Redundancy
• Horizontal scaling and distributed architecture

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• We are able to build and deploy clusters within minutes to simplify user experience and increase scalability and reliability.
• We are able to scale and compute on-demand to handle newer workloads like machine learning.
• We really like that we are able to access and administer the application via multiple interfaces.

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• Hadoop is a batch oriented processing framework, it lacks real time or stream processing.
• Hadoop's HDFS file system is not a POSIX compliant file system and does not work well with small files, especially smaller than the default block size.
• Hadoop cannot be used for running interactive jobs or analytics.

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• I would like to see a more robust version of their online help
• The speed of their business support is adequate, but I kind of expect more from such a powerhouse.
• Problems with duration of cluster life

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Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free

Great! Hadoop has an easy to use interface that mimics most other data warehouses. You can access your data via SQL and have it display in a terminal before exporting it to your business intelligence platform of choice. Of course, for smaller data sets, you can also export it to Microsoft Excel.

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We went with a third party for support, i.e., consultant. Had we gone with Azure or Cloudera, we would have obtained support directly from the vendor. my rating is more on the third party we selected and doesn't reflect the overall support available for Hadoop. I think we could have done better in our selection process, however, we were trying to use an already approved vendor within our organization. There is plenty of self-help available for Hadoop online.

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Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.

I feel that this is a highly reliable and scalable solution computing technology that is highly capable of processing large data sets across multiple servers and thousands of machines in a well-defined and distributed manner. Apache Hadoop can automatically scale up the number of servers and machines that are needed to process, store, and analyze data sets. It also handles explosions in data with big data technology. Apache Hadoop is good at handling all node failures as well.

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• I have been using Azure for my previous analysis, I had a difficult time in understanding the Analytics engine rather IBM provided step by step tutorial for setup.
• Also turning off a machine was not an option in Azure for some of the services so I had to pay for the service whether I use it or not

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• As it was open source makes it popular choice for handling large chuck of datasets
• It was free earlier but now it’s licensed but still enterprise is a fine tuned version which makes it easier for new users and administrators to use it
• Our investment is worth every single penny.
• Initial cost is more as you might need to hire administrators to setup the cluster and make them in scalable. But once done it’s pretty easy

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• It has saved us quite a bit of time managing our catalog of clusters and keeping things organized.
• Since we had a division we acquired running IBM Cloud, it was easy to get it running and try it out, but we found we prefer our Azure configuration better simply to keep our technology in alignment across corporate functions.
• I definitely see some cost savings by separating out the storage and compute. It helps you start to put an appropriate price tag on certain instances of big data.

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