Good Article on Hadoop and Big Data

There's a lot of hype about Big Data, and Hadoop usually comes up as the framework being leveraged to "solve" Big Data issues.

I found a very good, commonsense article about Hadoop that really nails some of the key discussion points.  For example, it compares relational databases and the traditional data warehouse approach with what Hadoop proposes to do.  It makes a strong point about how Hadoop addresses the matter of managing unstructured data.  It also ends with some comments about how ETL vendors such as Informatica and the open source based Pentaho and Talend are adjusting their products to work with Hadoop.

I will continue aggregating and commenting on some of the better articles in this space and contact me if you'd like to brainstorm with our data management experts at Xtivia.