Thrift + Graphs = Strong, flexible schemas on Hadoop

There are a lot of misconceptions about what Hadoop is useful for and what kind of data you can put in it. A lot of people think that Hadoop is meant for unstructured data like log files. While Hadoop is great for log files, it?s also fantastic for strongly typed, structured data.

In this post I?ll discuss how you can use a tool like Thrift to store strongly typed data in Hadoop while retaining the flexibility to evolve your schema. We?ll look at graph-based schemas and see why they are an ideal fit for many Hadoop-based applications.

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