How do organisations use Hadoop and associated technologies ?

2013-11-19 Thread Percy Mistry
Hi, I am new to Hadoop and would like to understand how exactly are Hadoop and its associated technologies (like Cassandra, Hive, Pig,etc..) used to achieve a business goal ? So lets say an organization has Hadoop and Cassandra or MongoDB and everything up and running. Then what ? What do you

Re: How do organisations use Hadoop and associated technologies ?

2013-11-19 Thread Martin, Nick
Hi Percy, Just my $.02 but there are quite a lot of case studies out there from the major distributions and tech journalists. Maybe start there. I think a search for Hadoop use cases or (sorry) Big Data use cases would turn up some useful examples about how organizations are using some of the

Re: How do organisations use Hadoop and associated technologies ?

2013-11-19 Thread Percy Mistry
I found use cases but I am looking for info at a lower level - implementation of retrieval and presentation. For example in these cases - http://www.slideshare.net/McK_CMSOForum/big-data-and-advanced-analytics-16-use-cases I want to know what technology stack would be used to retrieve,