Hadoop in the cloud: Good fit or round peg in a square hole?

Thomas Phelan and Joel Baxter investigate the advantages and disadvantages of running specific Hadoop workloads in different infrastructure environments. Thomas and Joel then provide a set of rules to help users evaluate big data runtime environments and deployment options to determine which is best suited for a given application.

Each big data application and use case has different performance and operational requirements. Choosing the Hadoop deployment option that is best suited for a given application depends on a number of factors. Thomas Phelan and Joel Baxter discuss the advantages and disadvantages of running various Hadoop use cases and applications in each of the following environments: They then provide a set of rules to help users evaluate big data runtime environments and deployment options to determine which is best suited for a given application. The answer is not always obvious. Thomas and Joel conclude with a Q&A session, where they will run real-world Hadoop uses cases through the proposed Hadoop environment selection criteria and ask attendees to select the optimal environment. These answers will then be compared against the Hadoop runtime environments actually selected by the customers running these real-world applications and use cases.