The requirement for a Big Data platform that scales to support massive amounts of data and traffic is fast becoming a must-have tool inside every rapidly growing business. But what is the right reference architecture for a Big Data stack?
It might look something like this: Ubuntu, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), MapReduce, Cassandra or HBase, Hive, Flume, JDBC and ODBC drivers, Hue, Pig, Oozie, Avro, Zookeeper, and throw in some Chef configuration management tools, the list goes on and on. Just the NoSQL database part of the stack takes some consideration as some NoSQL databases are designed for documents (like CouchDB and MongoDB), some for columns (Cassandra and HBase) and some for graphs (Sones, DEX, Neo4j), and within each of these categories there are trade offs.
That’s a lot of moving parts for enterprises to install and manage and few have the appetite for this kind of complexity. So how does an IT shop modify and integrate these different software components and hardware into a single Big Data solution? Overall, IT pros need to understand what problem they are trying to solve be ready to pick the best components that fit together and to look for vendors that are pulling pieces of the stack together as a solution, taking much of the pain and time out of the integration work.
For Big Data to succeed in mainstream enterprises, it must be as easy to install and use as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor Canonical for “Designing for Big Data: The New Architectural Stack”, a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 10 a.m., PST.
What Will Be Discussed
- What are the challenges with today’s Big Data tools and technologies?
- How are companies using these today?
- What are the options moving forward?
- What are the next steps in the evolution of the Big Data stack and how can enterprises get started with it?
Who Should Attend
- CIOs
- Data managers/developers
- IT decision makers
- Business strategists and decision makers
- Cloud platform providers
- Service provider executives
- Enterprise software and technology vendors
