The Backstory of Yahoo and Hadoop · Yahoo! Hadoop BlogSomewhat to my surprise, I was recently asked why Yahoo has put so much into Apache Hadoop. We currently have nearly 100 people working on Apache Hadoop and related projects, such as Pig, ZooKeeper, Hive, Howl, HBase and Oozie. Over the last 5 years, we've invested nearly 300 person-years into these projects. The Hadoop team at Yahoo is so passionate about our open source mission, and we've been d
