Planning to propose Hadoop initiative to company. Need some inputs please.

2014-10-01 Thread mani kandan
First off, I'm a mainframe developer, so I don't know much about Java or Web technology. I work at an insurance company as a software developer. We have a website to get quotes, raise and view claims and such. I came to know about Hadoop and that I might be able to ​ leverage it to the advantage

Re: Planning to propose Hadoop initiative to company. Need some inputs please.

2014-10-01 Thread Wilm Schumacher
Hi, first: I think hbase is what you are looking for. If I understand correctly you want to show the customer his or her data very fast and let them manipulate their data. So you need something like a data warehouse system. Thus, hbase is the method of choice for you (and I think for your kind of

Re: Planning to propose Hadoop initiative to company. Need some inputs please.

2014-10-01 Thread Ted Yu
Adding hbase user. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Wilm Schumacher wrote: > Hi, > > first: I think hbase is what you are looking for. If I understand > correctly you want to show the customer his or her data very fast and > let them manipulate their data. So you need something like a data > war

Re: Planning to propose Hadoop initiative to company. Need some inputs please.

2014-10-01 Thread Demai Ni
hi, glad to see another person moving from mainframe world to the 'big' data one. I was in the same boat a few years back after working on mainframe for 10+ years. Wilm got to the pointers already. I'd like to just chime in a bit from mainframe side. The example of website usage is a very good o