Hadoop At 10: Milestones And Momentum
#Hadoop, an open source framework for wrangling unstructured data and analytics, celebrated its 10th birthday in January. Here's a look at the milestones, players, and events that marked the growth of this groundbreaking technology.
The year was 2006. #Facebook was a two-year-old startup company, run by a 21-year-old in a hoodie. Some entrepreneurs had joined together to launch a new social media service called Twitter, and in December the world was still six months away from seeing the introduction of the #iPhone. It was a different time.
Consumers weren't carrying around sensor-laden, camera-equipped data collection devices everywhere they went and posting every thought, emotion, and meal to social media. When companies thought about data, they thought about structured data in ERP and CRM systems, and how they could create better business intelligence reports for executives.
It was in this environment that a new technology called Hadoop was born. It started as a framework to support a search engine project called Nutch. Nutch's creators needed a way to store and process the massive amount of data collected for their search engine to use, so they created a new software framework based on inspiration gained from a couple of papers published by growing Silicon Valley upstart #Google.
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