Applying big data technology to storage

With IoT data flooding into your cloud environment and after processing and transforming it, the next problem to solve is how to store it. The solution should support holding large datasets and be easy to interact with for analytics.

Hadoop

Hadoop is an open source effort that falls under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. As defined by the official project documentation, The Apache Hadoop project develops open source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Hadoop is available for free in its pure open source form.

Unless you have some Hadoop experts on your team, you should opt for one of the managed Hadoop distributions. This will give you a level of troubleshooting...