With the recent merger of Hadoop companies Cloudera and Hortonworks, some are asking: Is the Hadoop file system officially dead? The news around this merger has reiterated the impact of the economics of cloud. Reports are now going as far as saying that using cloud storage can easily “crush Hadoop storage costs.” Object stores such as Google Cloud Storage are overtaking on-premise Hadoop Distribut
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