Hadoop offers large enterprises a way out of their Big Data processing challenges but the Java-based programming framework but comes with a few pain points as well.
Restoring crashed clusters take time, which makes many C-level executives skittish about considering Hadoop for mission critical applications.
David Richards, CEO and chairman of California-based software company WANdisco Inc.says the firm’s peer-to-peer, data replication technology which keeps data and files synched throughout data centres can be tweaked to make Hadoop “bulletproof” for the enterprise, according to an article in Siliconangle.com.
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He said WANdisco and its recently acquired Hadoop developer firm AltoStor will soon release a solution called the Non-Stop NameNode which will guarantee that Hadoop will stay up all the time.
With WANdisco’s peer-to-peer strategy, each node in a cluster can service read and write. Administrators can take down a node for maintenance and a peer node will pick up from where it left off. If it works, this will have huge implications for mission critical applications.