#Hadoop deployments in the cloud are increasing, and the Internet of Things ( #IoT ) will see the next growth spurt for the 10-year-old big data platform, according to co-creator Doug Cutting.
Most Hadoop deployments have been in large organisations in the telecoms and finance sectors, and at internet companies such as #Yahoo, where the big data platform was born.
But the range of use cases is expanding as it evolves from experimental software to the de facto way to store and process big data, and Cutting sees the IoT as a natural fit, citing companies that are already using it for sensor data.
"Caterpillar collects data from all of its machines. Tesla is able to gather more information than anyone else in the self-driving business. They're collecting information on actual road conditions because they have cars sending all the data back," he said.
"And Airbus is loading all its sensor data from planes into Hadoop to understand and optimise their processes."
There has been much focus on driverless vehicles, but a quiet revolution has been going on in all cars, he pointed out.
"Almost every car these days has a cellular modem in it. I recently heard that more than 50 per cent of new cellular devices are not phones but other things that are connected," he said.
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