Apache™ Hadoop® is a powerful alternative to a traditional RDBMS and a driving force behind the growth of big data and large-scale analytics initiatives.

Whether you want to use Hadoop as a staging area for disparate data sources, to offload heavy data processing tasks to improve performance, or as a central data repository for analytics, this eBook will help you to determine if Hadoop is right for your use case.  

This eBook explores the following three use cases:

• Data warehouse offload: Looks at offloading data to a data warehouse to help ease pressures on your business-critical data warehouse

• Enterprise big data lake: Explains how to use an enterprise data lake to bring unrelated collections of data together for analysis

• Advanced analytics: Explores the advantages of using Hadoop for advanced analytics