Will Hadoop replace Mainframe?

[Viraj]

Hi,

One question came to my mind that will Hadoop replace mainframe as both are best well known for processing large amount of data. If yes then what exactly will happens and how it will be done? because mainframe and hadoop works on opposite direction i.e. mainframe works centrally and hadoop works on distributed architecture. Please help me on this.

Thanks,

Viraj

[Nitesh Jain]

Hey Viraj,

Interesting thought! 

If you look theoretically, yes Hadoop and Mainframe are in opposite directions but it doesn't translates into that, it would replace the mainframes. That's not going to be done any soon, in distant future it may be possible. The rationale behind it are two points:

1. Hadoop right now is fresh and new and has to prove its effectiveness in many more use cases before it can be trusted by organisations to leave their existing reliable software architecture on mainframes and take a risk on moving to Hadoop. 

2. Commercially, it is not viable for any organisation to find budget to move its software architecture to Hadoop in short time. There are huge budget costs involved, so much so that no organisation would shift immediately, unless it sees huge and sure business advantage. 

That was a nice thought, Viraj!

Best,

Nitesh

[Viraj]

Hi Nitesh,

Thanks for your reply its a great help for me but doing some research on this I found an interesting thing that company named as Syncsort is working on this and it is transferring Mainframe data to Hadoop easily. Organizations are moving onto that but as you told it takes time for Hadoop to prove its RAS feature against Mainframe. Thanks a lot it was a great help for me.

Thanks,

Viraj