Planet @Hadoop By @ABridgwater | @BigDataExpo [#BigData]

Labor market analytics firm Wanted Analytics recently assessed the market for technology professionals and found that demand for people with proficient levels of Hadoop expertise had skyrocketed by around 33% since last year – it is true, Hadoop is hard technology to master and the labor market is not exactly flooded with an over-abundance of skilled practitioners. Hadoop has been called a foundational technology, rather than ‘just’ a database by some commentators – this almost pushes it towards being an ‘environment’ rather than it being a single software product… and this all goes towards making Hadoop even harder to master, many will agree.

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