8 Cloud Computing Skills High In Demand Right Now


#8 Hadoop

Apache Hadoop (High-availability distributed object-oriented platform) is an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications, licensed under the Apache v2 license. It is a big player in the enterprise and is virtually synonymous with big data. It supports the running of applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. It enables applications to work with thousands of computation-independent computers and petabytes of data. Hadoop was derived from Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.

According to Dice, the career site for technology and engineering professionals, Hadoop skills topped the list at 25 percent, for the biggest expected demand for data analytics professionals for the upcoming year. The Companies are using Hadoop to handle and sift through thousands of data points from disparate sources and systems.

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