Recently, I was given the opportunity to present a session titled, An Executive’s Cheat Sheet on Hadoop, the Enterprise Data Warehouse and the Data Lake at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference. During this standing-room only session, I addressed these five questions:
What can Hadoop do that my data warehouse can’t?
We’re not doing “big” data, so why do we need Hadoop?
Is Hadoop enterprise-ready?
Isn’t a data lake just the data warehouse revisited?
What are some of the pros and cons of....