Is Hadoop Dead? The Rise of Delta Lake and Iceberg

Once the undisputed king of big data, Apache Hadoop is now facing an existential crisis. Its once-revolutionary architecture—built on HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN—is increasingly seen as cumbersome in an era dominated by cloud-native, real-time analytics. The limitations of Hadoop’s JVM-based ecosystem, coupled with its inability to efficiently handle modern data workloads, have paved the way …

Apr 24, 2025 - 07:18

Once the undisputed king of big data, Apache Hadoop is now facing an existential crisis. Its once-revolutionary architecture—built on HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN—is increasingly seen as cumbersome in an era dominated by cloud-native, real-time analytics. The limitations of Hadoop’s JVM-based ecosystem, coupled with its inability to efficiently handle modern data workloads, have paved the way …