Is ETL Dead in the Age of Hadoop?

by Josh Rogers

So where are we on this Hadoop thing? Coming out of theStrata conference at the end of February, it felt as though organizations knowthey should be doing something with Hadoop. That’s important. But exactly what?Well, that’s less clear. There are a few organizations that have figured it outand are creating breakthrough insights. However, there’s a much larger set thathave stood up 10 Hadoop nodes and are looking at each other with an expressionof “now what?”

The collision between traditional approaches to DataIntegration and Hadoop is one of the more interesting aspects of Big Datagenerally and of Hadoop specifically that warrants attention. There has been much written about BigData analytics and the promise of architectures like Hadoop. But morespecifically, what are the implications of Hadoop on traditional and currentapproaches to Data Integration?

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