Hadoop: What it is, how it works, and what it can do - O’Reilly Radar
by James Turner
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson on Hadoop’s architecture and its data applications.
Hadoop gets a lot of buzz these days in database and content management circles, but many people in the industry still don’t really know what it is and or how it can be best applied.
Cloudera CEO and Strata speaker Mike Olson, whose company offers an enterprise distribution of Hadoop and contributes to the project, discusses Hadoop’s background and its applications in the following interview.
