Jon Bloom, a senior consultant from Agile Bay, Inc., will present on big data and Hadoop. The session agenda includes definitions of big data and Hadoop, a comparison of BI and Hadoop, and a demo. Hadoop is an open source Apache project for distributed computing across commodity servers using batch processing. It includes HDFS, YARN, MapReduce and an ecosystem of tools like HBase and Hive. While Hadoop extends BI capabilities to massive datasets, BI is suited for datasets up to hundreds of gigabytes versus Hadoop which handles terabytes to petabytes of data.