Name: This New Technology Allows Companies to Build a ‘Data Warehouse’
Uploaded: 2016-09-01
Duration: 1 min 20 s
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[ MUSIC ] Hadoop is what they call a distributive file system. It's open source technology, meaning it is free, and it allows you to have a file system that spans multiple machines. Think about how much more powerful an application Can run if you're using the power of multiple machines. What people are really interested in is that they can throw all the data in there and it's sold as like a data warehouse. Tons and tons of information, and when it's all in there you can do very long analysis of that data, which is known as batch processing. So, let's say you're a company and you want to say," how many people have clicked on my website from January to March of two years ago ?" Theoretically, if you have that information in Hadoop, you can calculate that and, because it's a distributive file system, it supposedly makes that Task of analyzing faster. This is a relatively newer phenomenon that was brought to you by the big companies like Google or Facebook. They've been building their data centers with cheap commodity servers and they're installing these very advanced forms of software to run their business. [ MUSIC ]