#2 Big Data

Value in the Market -$114,000

Big Data is the word that people are using today for software that can analyze huge chunks of data. The software can analyze data in all formats e-mail, tweets, posts, documents, video, audio and any more you can name. Just feed the thing and it will churn it out for you.

There are four basic technologies that make up the "big data world" they are analytics, in-memory databases, NoSQL databases and Hadoop. Once you master these four principles you will find that companies are fighting each other to rope you in. Paint’s quite the picture and it will hold true for quite some years to come.

#1 Hadoop

Value in the Market - $115,000

Hadoop is an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications. It supports the running of applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides both reliability and data motion to applications. To simplify, with Hadoop you can gather and store large amounts of data and analyze them at a very low cost.

For instance the Yahoo search webmap is a Hadoop application, Facebook claims to have the largest Hadoop cluster in the world and many other renowned companies like Amazon, Netapp, Apple, Microsoft, IBM. This is a sure shot ticket into the biggies of tech.

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