As the amount and pace of data-generation keeps growing, businesses are stepping away from traditional rdbms solutions and go for highly scalable store solutions. Numerous papers are being published on this topic for instance by well known companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon and opensource projects come into existence like Cassandra and Hadoop. This video gives an overview on these emerging technologies and discuss what they could mean for your business applications.
careful, they guy says hadoop is a file system, which is not
so that people don’t get the wrong idea: hadoop is a framework for distributed computing, it allows you to build your application so it runs (distributed) on more computers
part the the hadoop framework is hdfs. that is the file system and it’s a distributed file system