Question - What are the real-time industry applications of Hadoop?
Answer -
Hadoop, well known as Apache Hadoop, is an open-source software platform for scalable and distributed computing of large volumes of data. It provides rapid, high-performance, and cost-effective analysis of structured and unstructured data generated on digital platforms and within the organizations. It is used across all departments and sectors today.
Here are some of the instances where Hadoop is used:
- Managing traffic on streets
- Streaming processing
- Content management and archiving emails
- Processing rat brain neuronal signals using a Hadoop computing cluster
- Fraud detection and prevention
- Advertisements targeting platforms are using Hadoop to capture and analyze clickstream, transaction, video, and social media data
- Managing content, posts, images, and videos on social media platforms
- Analyzing customer data in real-time for improving business performance
- Public sector fields such as intelligence, defense, cyber security, and scientific research
- Getting access to unstructured data such as output from medical devices, doctor’s notes, lab results, imaging reports, medical correspondence, clinical data, and financial data