Why Hadoop Is the Future of the Database | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

At some point it's not Hadoop anymore; Drill might be a more accurate description...

"What’s more, Greenplum is revamping Hadoop to operate more like a relational database, letting you rapidly ask questions of data using the structured query language, or SQL, which has been a staple of the database world for decades. “When we were acquired [by EMC], we really believed that the two worlds were going to fuse together,” says Greenplum co-founder Scott Yara. “What was going to be exciting is if you cold take the massively parallel query processing technology in a database system [like Greenplum] and basically fuse it with the Hadoop platform.”"

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