For those proficient in core Java, the chant of Hadoop in their ears is inevitable. Is Hadoop a natural choice for Java professionals? Gartner conducted a survey of more than 700 clients in 2013. Almost 60% of them were planning to invest in Big Data. The Big Data segment has crossed fifty million dollars already. The rise of Big Data has come for the simple reason that relational databases are ineffective to manage complex and voluminous data. The future belongs to data-driven...