Karmasphere, a a Big Data Intelligence (BDI) software company bringing Apache Hadoop power to developers and analysts, has published the results of a survey among Hadoop users. The report can be downloaded from ☞ here (PDF).

Interesting notes:

• Within  a  year,  86%  of  projects  have moved to either active development or production
• In 68% of the cases, the first use of Hadoop was not mandated by someone higher in the organization
• the top reasons for using/evaluating Hadoop:
  • mine data for improved business intelligence
  • reduce cost of data analysis
  • log analysis
  
• top challenges in adopting Hadoop:
  • steep learning curve
  • hiring qualified people
  • availability of appropriate products and tools^[1]
  • enough information on how to get started
  
• top programming challenges:
  • debugging Hadoop jobs
  • monitoring Hadoop jobs
  • insufficient educational resources
  

Definitely a lot of data points and possible conclusions, so ☞ check it yourself (PDF).

Original title and link: A Stufy of Hadoop Developers from Karmasphere (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)