Features Of Hadoop

 It is best-suited for Big Data analysis

Typically, Big Data has an unstructured and distributed nature. This is what
makes Hadoop clusters best suited for Big Data analysis. Hadoop functions
on the ‘data locality’ concept, which means that instead of the actual data, the
processing logic flows to the computing nodes, thereby consuming less
network bandwidth. This increases the efficiency of Hadoop applications.
 It is scalable
The best thing about Hadoop clusters is that you can scale them to any extent
by adding additional cluster nodes to the network without incorporating any
modifications to application logic. So, as the Big Data volume, variety, and
velocity increase, you can also scale the Hadoop cluster to accommodate the
growing data needs.
 It is fault-tolerant
In the Hadoop ecosystem, there’s a provision to replicate the input data to
other cluster nodes as well. Thus, if ever a cluster node fails, data processing
will not come to a standstill as another cluster node can replace the failed
node and continue the process.
Hadoop Applications in the real-world
1. Security and Law Enforcement
Yes, Hadoop is now used as an active tool in Law enforcement. Thanks to its
speedy and reliable Big Data analysis, Hadoop is helping Law enforcement
agencies (like the police department) to become more proactive, efficient,
and accountable. For instance, the national security agency of the USA uses
Hadoop to prevent terrorist attacks. Since Hadoop can help detect security
breaches and suspicious activities in real-time, it has become an effective tool
to predict criminal activity and catch criminals.
2. Enhance customer satisfaction and monitor online reputation
Businesses are now using Hadoop to analyze sales data and compare it
against many other factors to determine when and at which time a specific
product sells best. By continually monitoring sales data, business owners can
find out why certain products sell better on particular days or hours or season.
In the same way, Hadoop can also mine social media and online
conversations to see what your customers (both existing and potential) are
saying about you on online platforms. It monitors the sentiments behind the
comments and feedback of the customers. This insight helps marketers and
business owners to analyze customer pain points and what they expect from

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 the brand. All of this vital information can be used by businesses and
companies to enhance the quality of their products, boost customer
satisfaction quotient, and improve their online reputation.
3. Monitor patient vitals
Many hospitals have started leveraging Hadoop to make their staff more
productive in their work process. Healthcare systems and machines generate
large volumes of unstructured data. Conventional data processing systems
cannot process and analyze such large quantities of raw data. However,
Hadoop can. An excellent case in point is when the Children’s Healthcare of
Atlanta fitted a sensor beside the bed of its ICU units to continually track the
vital of child patients such as blood pressure, heartbeat, and respiratory rate.
The primary aim was to store and analyze these critical signs and be alerted if
ever there occurred any change in the patterns. This allowed the healthcare
provider to promptly send a team of doctors and medical assistants to check
on patients in need. This was made possible using the core components of the
Hadoop ecosystem components – Hive, Flume, Impala, Spark, and Sqoop.
4. Healthcare Intelligence
Healthcare insurance companies usually combine all the associated costs
(including the risks involved) and equally divide it by the total number of
members in a particular group. Naturally, the outcomes are always dynamic
since they keep changing. This is where Hadoop’s scalable and inexpensive
feature can be highly useful. Hadoop can efficiently accommodate dynamic
data and scale according to the ever-changing needs. By using Hadoop-based
healthcare intelligence apps, both healthcare providers and healthcare
insurance companies can devise smart business solutions at an affordable
cost.
Let’s assume that a healthcare insurance company wishes to find the age in a
region where people below a certain age limit aren’t prone to a specific
disease. This is to be done to help the company to calculate the approximate
cost of the insurance policy. However, to gather the age data of the people in
the region, the company will have to invest a large sum of money in
processing and analyzing vast volumes of datasets to extract relevant
information regarding the disease in question, its symptoms, its target
victims, and so on. This is where Hadoop components like Pig, Hive, and
MapReduce can come in handy – these can process large datasets at
relatively low costs.
5. Track clickstream data

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 Essentially, Hadoop’s primary function is to store, process, and analyze
massive volumes of data, including clickstream data. Hadoop can
successfully capture the following:
 Where did a visitor originate from before reaching a particular website?
 What search term did the visitor use that lead to the website?
 Which webpage did the visitor open first?
 What are the other webpages that interested the visitor?
 How much time did the visitor spend on each page?
 What product/service did the visitor decide to buy?
By helping you find the answers to all such questions, Hadoop offers an
analysis of the user engagement and website performance. Thus, by
leveraging Hadoop, companies of all shapes and sizes can conduct
clickstream analysis to optimize the user-path and predict what
product/service the customer is likely to buy next, and where to allocate their
web resources.
6. Track geolocation data
Smartphones have become a crucial part of our lives now. With the number
of smartphone users around the world increasing as we speak, these tiny
devices are the heartbeat of the digital world. So, why not capitalize on this
opportunity and use smartphones to your advantage? Businesses can use
Hadoop to track the geolocation data on smartphones and tablets to track
customers’ movements, behavior patterns, purchases, and predict their next
move. Not just that, Hadoop clusters can also streamline massive amounts of
geolocation data and help organizations to identify the challenges in their
business and operation processes.
7. Track sensor data
Today, electronic gadgets and machines are using sensors to enhance the user
experience and more importantly, to harvest customer data. The growing
trend toward incorporating sensors has become more pronounced following
the increasing adoption of IoT devices. In fact, sensor data is among the
fastest-growing data types now. Devices and machines are infused with
advanced sensors that can monitor and track a host of features like
temperature, speed, pressure, proximity, location, image, price, motion, and
much more. Since sensor data tends to become overwhelming with time,
Hadoop is the best and most effective solution to track, store, and analyze
sensor data. By tracking and monitoring sensor data, companies can obtain

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 operational insights into their business and improve their processes
accordingly.
8. Strengthen security and compliance
Hadoop can efficiently analyze server-log data and respond to a security
breach in real-time. Server-logs are nothing but computer-generated logs that
capture network data operations, particularly the security and regulatory
compliance data. Server-log provides companies and organizations important
insights pertaining to network usage, security threats and compliance.
Hadoop is the perfect fit for staging and analyzing this data. It is an excellent
tool to extract errors or detect the occurrence of any suspicious event in a
system (example, login failures). By loading the server logs into Hadoop,
network admins can identify the cause of the security breach and fix the issue
promptly.
Although these are only a handful of Hadoop applications in the real-world
scenario, many more are yet to come. As the Big Data use cases expand and
Hadoop technology matures, we will see more of such pioneering
applications of Hadoop.

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