Cloudera

1) Hadoop is a big deal because it helps companies handle the massive amounts of date most businesses must use to be competitive in today's market. Hadoop helps companies by providing reliable data storage and using MapReduce to help process all the data. MapReduce is a technique which helps companies to process lots of data different machines at the same time. Also Hadoop servers will still be able to deliver data when a system experiences server failure. 2) Cloudera is a software company which creates Apache-Hadoop products. Much of their expertise and products are in data management. 3) PIG is a sort of query language which works with Hadoop. It helps query databases and assist the MapReduce process. 4) HIVE is a type of data warehouse system which works with Hadoop. A HIVE warehouse can provide data summaries, analysis, and be queried. 5) Cassandra is a database management system. It does not use SQL, but instead mergers column-oriented and row-oriented storage. 6) Mahout allows for large data sets to be processed to be distributed over multiple machines using a simple programming model.