 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | | | Few businesses are on the scale of Facebook, but the problems it's dealing with today may influence the best practices smaller companies will be putting in place tomorrow.
Just as Facebook is shaping big data hardware and data centers through its Open Compute Project initiative, it's also influencing the software tools and platforms for big data analysis, including Hadoop, Hive, graph analysis and more. Hive, Hadoop's data warehousing infrastructure, originated at Facebook, and according to Jay Parikh, VP of infrastructure engineering, the company is hard at work on ways to make Hive work faster and support more SQL query capabilities.
Parikh also tells InformationWeek that Facebook is working on real-time and graph-analysis platforms, but the heart and soul of this interview is about big data analytics. There's plenty of detail on how Facebook answers operational and business questions, but read on to get Parikh's advice on how to avoid "wasting a lot of money" or "missing huge opportunities" in big data.
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