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The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $77 million in 2011to $812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2percent, according to a new report released Monday by analyst firmIDC. Hadoop is an open source implementation of the MapReduce framework.It is hosted at the Apache Software Foundation along with a numberof supporting software projects, including the Hadoop DistributedFile System (HDFS) and Pig programming language. [ Find out which set of tools came out on top in InfoWorld TestCenter's review: " Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier ." Learn how to work smarter, not harder with all the tips andtrends programmers need to know in InfoWorld's developers survival guide . Download it today! For more on software development, subscribeto InfoWorld's Developer World newsletter. ] MapReduce and Hadoop are based on the principle of splitting uplarge amounts of data and then processing the chunks in parallel across large numbers of nodes. It's closely associated with the industry buzzword " big data ," which refers to the ever-larger volumes of information,particularly of unstructured form, being generated by websites,social media, sensors, and other sources. Overall, Hadoop has enjoyed a steady stream of interest fromcommercial analytics and database vendors in recent years, who havebegun offering commercial products and services for it. While "fantastic and largely unsupportable claims have been made"regarding Hadoop and MapReduce's use cases and benefits, "there canbe no doubt that it does provide a relatively low-cost means ofderiving considerable value from very large collections ofunorganized data," IDC analysts Carl Olofson and Dan Vesset wrotein the report. Therefore, the conditions are right for significant growth in theHadoop-MapReduce "ecosystem," according to IDC. This year, "Leading adopters in the mainstream IT world will movefrom 'proof of concept' to real value," the report states. However, lack of qualified talent will limit the technology's riseduring the next two to three years, it adds. The coming years will also see a "battle between open sourcepurists, who believe that the core of Hadoop deployment must bebased purely on the Apache project code," according to IDC.However, most IT organizations will use a mix of commercial andopen source components in their Hadoop environments, the reportadds. Still, "competition between open source vendors and their closedsource counterparts may force lower license fees from the lattergroup, resulting in somewhat slower software revenue growth thanwould be the case if open source projects did not represent solarge a component of this market space." IDC is a subsidiary of IDG News Service's parent company,International Data Group. Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technologybreaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris's e-mail address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Fractional Laser Skin Resurfacing , Cavitation Slimming Machine Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit RF Beauty Equipment today!
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