The cases studies presented earlier showcase how Apex is used in critical production deployments that solves important business problems. This section will highlight key capabilities of Apex and how they relate to the value proposition. To understand the challenges in finding the right technology and building successful solutions, it is helpful to look at the evolution of the big data technology space over the last few years, which essentially started with Apache Hadoop.
Hadoop was originally built as a Java-based platform for search indexing in Yahoo, inspired by Google's MapReduce paper. Its promise was to perform processing of big data on commodity hardware, reducing the infrastructure cost of such systems significantly. ...
