5 things everyone should know about Hadoop — Tech News and Analysis

At least part of the database market is safe

“[T]here’s really no answer in the Hadoop space today for the kind OLTP and very advanced workloads that run on the traditional larger databases,” Olson acknowledged, adding, “I don’t think that any of those vendors looks at the platform, Hadoop, or even the more-capable enterprise data hub that we bring to market right now, with that much trepidation.”