Introduction
Data storage and management technologies have recently begun to surge in popularity. Businesses want to learn how to implement the best ways to store, maintain, capitalize on the copious amounts of data that their products, consumers, services, etc. generate. With that being said, organizing and measuring data has proven to be quite difficult despite present-day technological innovations. The term “Big data” has emerged and Apache Hadoop, or Hadoop, technology uses a set of algorithms to process large clusters of data (Kelly, 2014).
This report serves as documentation of research conducted on the benefits and barriers of Apache Hadoop as well as a proposal to the management of Peter Mayer Advertising to implement the Apache
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Benefits & Barriers of Implementing Hadoop At Peter Mayer
Below is an examination of the benefits and barriers of implementing Hadoop to restructure the big data of Peter Mayer Advertising to increase the agency’s network security, overall profit, and consumer satisfaction.
Barriers of Implementing Hadoop at Peter Mayer
Data Misidentification
Leveraging the value of data can be extremely complicated. If the data at Peter Mayer is misidentified, then determining the best ways to go about using the agency’s big data could prove to be very ambiguous and or difficult to articulate.
Workforce Availability
Qualified professionals that are able work on new technologies and to interpret data are limited. “Big Data” is a relatively new concept, consequently, there is a shortage of experts that can interpret the information of a business like Peter Mayer’s to get understanding of what the agency’s needs are.
Data Access and Connectivity
Many institutions, businesses, organizations, companies, etc. lack the correct technologies and software to manage and aggregate their data. While there are organizations that are working to providing lasting solutions, this is a problem that could hinder the implementation of Hadoop at Peter Mayer Advertising.
Changing Technical Patterns
Technical
In an attempt to manage their data correctly, organizations are realizing the importance of Hadoop for the expansion and growth of business. According to a study done by Gartner, an organization loses approximately 8.2 Million USD annually through poor data quality. This happens when 99 percent of the organizations have their data strategies in place. The reason behind this is simple – the organizations are unable to trace the bad data that exists within their data. This is one problem which can be easily solved by adopting Hadoop testing methods which allows you to validate all of your data at increased testing speeds and boosts your data coverage resulting in better data quality.
The main purpose of this report is to provide a critical review of the processes and own experiences of Hadoop within the context of the assignment which was given to us. The review concentrates on the discussion and evaluation of the overall steps followed during the progress of the project and the reasons for which we have chosen these particular steps. It also draws attention at the main points that were accomplished, both with respect to individual, and with respect to the group 's perspectives. Finally, it concentrates on the project 's progress in terms of changes for a future implementation.
The challenge is that they require a unique way of collecting, managing and visualizing technologies which makes it one of the four major technology trends in the 2010s. (IBM tech trend report 2011). A report by the McKinsey Global Institute (Manyika et al. 2011) predicted that by 2018, the United States alone will face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills, as well as a shortfall of 1.5 million data-savvy managers with the know-how to analyze big data to make effective decisions.
The industry is inundated with articles on big data. Big data news is no longer confined to the technical web pages. You can read about big data in the mainstream business publications such as Forbes and The Economist. Each week the media reports on breakthroughs, startups, funding and customer use cases. No matter your source for information on big data, one thing they all have in common is that the amount of information an organization will manage is only going to increase; this is what’s driving the ‘big data’ movement.
As a result of the appearance of big data in our world, conventional data warehousing and data analysis methods no longer have the process power needed. What is Big Data you may ask and why is it such a big deal. NIST defines big data as anywhere “[…] data volume, acquisition velocity, or data representation limits the ability to perform effective analysis using traditional relational approaches […]” (Mell & Cooper, n.d.).
In this research paper the focus and attempt has been to understand how the Hadoop technology can be resourceful to banking organizations in data compilation and processing to extract data related to customers who could be potential customers to their housing loan products. The entire process of the implementation reflects that the technology could be very resourceful to banking organizations in terms of gaining insight to complex queries in real time environment, thru quick processing of data. This technical paper is a critical analysis of how Hadoop can be an effective data processing technology framework.
Using the right combination of Hadoop products and the other platforms can be sensational in terms of analytics because it has the capacity to analyze analysis of petabytes of Web log data in large Internet firms, and now is being applied to similar analytic applications involving call detail records in telecommunications, XML documents in supply chain industries (retail and manufacturing), unstructured claims documents in insurance, sessionized spatial data in logistics, and a wide variety of log data from machines and sensors. Hadoop-enabled analytics are sometimes deployed in silos, but the
Optimization of existing data warehouse using Hadoop (HDFS) can be implemented by following below seven steps or fundamental processes which are divided into 2 phases.
The proliferation of data, process and system integration technologies, combined with the rapid advances made in analytics, Big Data, customer management and supply chain applications are power catalysts of disruptive change in enterprise IT. Given the fact that many legacy, 3rd party and previously disparate, disconnected systems are for the first time being integrated together, the amount of data available for analysis and decision making has never been greater. Add to this the torrent of data being generated daily through an enterprise's sales cycles, social networks subscribed to, and customer interactions, and the amount of data available can becoming quickly overwhelming. All of these dynamics taken together form the area of analytics and enterprise software called Big Data. As tempting it is for the analytically-minded to dive into these terabytes and explore for insights and previously-unknown associations in the data, to get the most value from the investments in BigData, analytics, and enterprise applications, governance-based frameworks need to be defined that align these systems to specific strategic objectives (McKendrick, 2012). The advent of Hadoop, H-Base, MapReduce and other data analysis and aggregation platforms and applications only become relevant in the context of strategic goals and their accomplishment (Rogers, 2011). That is why more
Data has always been analyzed within companies and used to help benefit the future of businesses. However, the evolution of how the data stored, combined, analyzed and used to predict the pattern and tendencies of consumers has evolved as technology has seen numerous advancements throughout the past century. In the 1900s databases began as “computer hard disks” and in 1965, after many other discoveries including voice recognition, “the US Government plans the world’s first data center to store 742 million tax returns and 175 million sets of fingerprints on magnetic tape.” The evolution of data and how it evolved into forming large databases continues in 1991 when the internet began to pop up and “digital storage became more cost effective than paper. And with the constant increase of the data supplied digitally, Hadoop was created in 2005 and from that point forward there was “14.7 Exabytes of new information are produced this year" and this number is rapidly increasing with a lot of mobile devices the people in our society have today (Marr). The evolution of the internet and then the expansion of the number of mobile devices society has access to today led data to evolve and companies now need large central Database management systems in order to run an efficient and a successful business.
Data gathered in the 80s and 90s, commonly called “traditional data” was measured in gigabytes and was mainly structured, organized and analyzed using SQL; (SQL stands for structured query language, it is a the standard language to communicate with RDBMS) (American National Standards Institute), as opposed to now where data includes huge volume, high velocity and variety, it is now measured in Petabytes (1 Petabyte = 1000000 Gigabyte). New technologies have been developed to analyze the new types of data (semi - structured, unstructured) using Hadoop systems.
With the progress of the enterprise big data project, the importance of data analysis speed is increasingly highlighted. To further enhance the speed of data analysis, IBM unveiled a Hadoop data machine, designed to help enterprise users to meet demands of more variety and more large-scale data (lower cost) real-time analysis.
Recent advancements in internet communication and in parallel computing grabbed the attention of a large number of commercial organizations and industries to adapt the recent changes in storage and retrieval methods. This includes the new data retrieval and mining schemas which enable the firms to provide their clients a wide space for carrying their job processing and storing of the personal data. Although the new storage innovations made the user data to accommodate the petabyte scale in size, the storing schemas are still on the research desk to compete with this adaptation. Some of the new research outcomes which gained a high popularity and become the need of the hour is the Hadoop. Hadoop is developed by Apache based on the papers of
This paper will outline and describe three vendors that provide the Hadoop NoSQL database program to enterprises. Each of these companies see themselves as uniquely different, thus positioning themselves within a market place that has begun to become highly competitive in the “Big Data” age. I will provide an outline of the talking points that will be discussed for each company, starting with a brief description of the Hadoop NoSQL open-source database program, then I will discuss each company on the evaluation categories, and conclude with options for whether to move forward with either of these vendors. After the conclusion the reader will have the information on these vendors and the confidence to be able to decide on which choice would be best for the business.
MapReduce: The MapReduce language establishes a base for Hadoop Eco System. It processes Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on large clusters which are made of thousands of commodity hardware in a reliable and fault-tolerant manner. The operations of MapReduce are performed in Map and Reduce functions. The Map function works on a set of input values and transforms them into a set of key/value pairs. The reducer receives all the data for an individual "key" from all the mappers and applies Reduce function to achieve the final result.