HADOOP WORLD CONFERENCE Reps from JP Morgan Chase and eBay say the open source data storage and analysis framework is ready for primetime enterprise play
The product is being positioned by Oracle largely as something that companies can use to acquire and organize unstructured data before passing it on to its Exadata appliance
Much of Hadoop's growing popularity lies in its ability to break up large data sets into smaller data blocks that are then distributed across a cluster of commodity hardware for faster processing