For those of you still scratching your head over the ins-and-outs of Hive, Spark and Pig, don't bother. There's a race on to make complex Big Data technology like Hadoop easy for the lay user, and it has the added benefit of making you rich.
Yes, you.
After all, the closer you are to the end user of Big Data technology, the bigger the paycheck. Former Cowen & Co. analyst Peter Goldmacher nailed this years ago in a research brief, arguing that the "biggest winners in the Big Data world aren’t the Big Data technology vendors, but rather the companies that will leverage Big Data technology to create entirely new businesses or disrupt legacy businesses."
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