Adopting Apache Hadoop and Hive
Moving Federal Gov analytics from MySQL to Hadoop and Hive:
HDFS offered us a distributed, resilient, and scalable filesystem while Hadoop promised to bring the work to where the data resided so we could make efficient use of local disk on multiple nodes. Hive, however, really pushed our decision in favor of a Hadoop-based system. Our data is just unstructured enough to make traditional RDBMS schemas a bit brittle and restrictive, but has enough structure to make a schema-less NoSQL system unnecessarily vague. Hive let us compromise between the two — it’s sort of a “SomeSQL” system.
Original title and link: Adopting Apache Hadoop and Hive (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2011/04/adopting-apache-hadoop-in-the-federal-government/
