{"id":645047,"date":"2013-03-04T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=613362"},"modified":"2013-03-04T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:00:43","slug":"the-history-of-hadoop-from-4-nodes-to-the-future-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645047","title":{"rendered":"The history of Hadoop: From 4 nodes to the future of data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Depending on how one defines its birth, Hadoop<\/a> is now 10 years old. In that decade, Hadoop has gone from being the hopeful answer to Yahoo\u2019s search-engine woes to a general-purpose computing platform that\u2019s poised to be the foundation for the next generation of data-based applications.<\/p>\n

Alone, Hadoop is a software market that IDC predicts will be worth $813 million<\/a> in 2016 (although that number is likely very low), but it\u2019s also driving a big data market the research firm predicts will hit more than $23 billion<\/a> by 2016. Since Cloudera launched in 2008, Hadoop has spawned dozens of startups and spurred hundreds of millions in venture capital investment<\/a> since 2008.<\/p>\n

In this four-part series, we\u2019ll explain everything anyone concerned with information technology needs to know about Hadoop. Part I is the history of Hadoop from the people who willed it into existence and took it mainstream. Part II is more graphic; a map of the now-large and complex ecosystem of companies selling Hadoop products. Part III is a look into the future of Hadoop that should serve as an opening salvo for much of the discussion at our Structure: Data conference<\/a> March 20-21 in New York. Finally, Part IV will highlight some the best Hadoop applications and seminal moments in Hadoop history, as reported by GigaOM over the years.<\/p>\n