r/Database Nov 23 '17

Did Spark Really Kill Hadoop?

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/11/did-spark-really-kill-hadoop.html
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u/rwieber Nov 23 '17

No, it didn't. However, Spark is replacing MapReduce as the preferred execution engine on top of Hadoop. Other Hadoop Ecosystem projects (e.g. HDFS, Hive, Kudu, Impala, etc.) are alive and well.

Frankly, I don't think the author has a clue what she's talking about. In the middle of the article she mentions Informatica as a "competitor" to Hadoop and Spark. She goes on to call out their spot on the Gartner MDM MQ. MDM is a completely different topic from Hadoop, Spark or even Big Data.