Hadoop as a Viable Data Warehouse Platform, and More

In 2011 we made an important decision to take a barely worn path and initiate a new project to replace our core data warehouse (DWH) platform with a Hadoop-based implementation. Like many organizations we were experiencing scalability, complexity and cost issues with our traditional DWH model, and new development time and big data growth were creating a significant resource drain on the company. With no closely comparable reference implementations or internal Hadoop experience to speak of, we charged a small team of java developers to lead this effort with the goal of leveraging Hadoop to expa