What do you call a big pile of data sitting in a Hadoop storage that cannot be analysed effectively due to its non-structural nature? It’s called a big pile of JUNK w/ all due respect, and that sadly is the state of Hadoop.

Hadoop’s infrastructure is tiltled toward map & reduce algorithm rather than analytical work. It certainly can store a lot of data but just does not do much useful things to it, which is not surprising as there’s no short cut here when it comes to data analysis: If you don’t organize your data up front then prepare to pay the price down the road when you try to analyse it. GUARANTEED.

Haddop feels like a typical Silicon-Valley hype (e.g. Facebook, Zynga and so on) rather than some solid products ready to kick butt. Sorry, no sale here.