Anyone heard of or used Hadoop software for SEO/website analytics?

[WhiteboardCreations]

Hey Moz Community,

We received an interesting email this morning from a client's marketing manager asking if we knew about or have ever used "Hadoop software" because "[Business owner name] says it’s supposed to help us see how people use our website and more."

I've never heard of this software and upon looking around on the web, it says it can do a lot, but my client is a small law firm who average 800-1,000 visitors per month, mainly from their 2 local office cities/markets.

Anyone have any thoughts on this or ever use this software? Thanks in advance.

Patrick

[WhiteboardCreations]

Thanks for your input, Martijn. This is exactly what I was thinking after reading up more about it. Small business wouldn't benefit from this type of software, nor do I think they could afford it.

• Patrick

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Patrick,

I've definitely heard from Hadoop, but if the site has 800-1000 visits a month then you're trying to scale issues that are really not useful with Hadoop in relation to the size of your site. Hadoop is really for big data for sites I would say starting at 800k - 1million. It's also by far not a plug and play tool like any other tool and you have to configure a lot with probably a lot of related costs.

[WhiteboardCreations]

Some additional resources:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/09/19/the-state-of-hadoop-2014-whos-using-it-and-why/

http://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/big-data/hadoop.html