by Angela Guess

A new press release reports, “Syncsort, a global leader in Big Iron to Big Data solutions, today announced the results from its third annual Hadoop survey, showing that as users gain more experience with Hadoop, they are building on their early success and expanding the size and scope of Hadoop projects. Download the Hadoop survey results for 2017. The number one role of Hadoop continues to be increasing data warehouse capacity and reducing costs (cited by 62% of respondents) but the number of organizations using it for better, faster analytics is on the rise (49.4% of respondents, up from 45.5% last year). As the ways in which they are using Hadoop and the benefits they expect to achieve are evolving, there are several key trends to watch in 2017.”

The release continues, “Traditional data sources are more popular for filling the data lake, but newer sources are a sizable part of the mix. As Hadoop projects multiply, so too, will the sources and volume of data required to support them – from mainframes to NoSQL databases and beyond. Legacy systems remain essential for populating the data lake, with the top three sources including: enterprise data warehouses (EDW) (69%), relational database management systems (RDBMs) (61%) and mainframes (40%). Newer sources are gaining importance, especially those that generate streaming data, such as smart devices and sensors (53.5%). Therefore, having a tool that allows organizations to easily access and integrate all data – legacy and newer sources, batch and streaming – is vital.”

Read more at PR Newswire.

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