The Big Data space has been confusing. Investors looking to ride the ups and downs of this market need to develop high tolerance for contradictory messages. Since then, two large companies servicing the Hadoop market have gone public with much financial appeal. And over the last 10 years, many innovations have been delivered, with technology breakthroughs that span a large space, from Apache Spark to Presto to Zeppelin. Hadoop got it start as a batch system, primarily used to store large volumes of data at a low cost.

Source: Forbes August 15, 2017 05:26 UTC