Data Lake for Enterprises

Advantages of Hadoop

The Why Hadoop? section covered some of the reasons we chose Hadoop, which are in turn the core advantages. The following list reiterates those points with much more in-depth details and coverage in a crisp and easy-to-read manner:

• Scalability: It is capable of handling a huge volume and variety of data. You can add more nodes to keep handling more data (linearly scalable).
• Flexibility: There is no structured schema (schema-less). It is capable of handling different types of data (big data V, namely Variety).
• High performance: It is capable of high performance for these huge volumes of data.
• Low cost: It is capable of running on commodity hardware, making it a less costly prospect for implementation. It's open source ...