Marcos: It is extremely common that data processed with Hadoop is eventually used for billing purposes. Regarding your example, one could use map reduce to calculate usage totals by customer ID and drive billing from there.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Marcos Medrado Rubinelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The wiki's "Powered By" page ( http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy ) > lists dozens of companies using Hadoop in production, some of them for > mission-critical operations, but is anyone using it - or planning to - for > anything that involves money, like calculating a bill from API usage, or > microtransactions? > > If not, what are your main concerns? What parts would you consider stable > enough for this kind of use? > > Thanks, > Marcos > -- Eric Sammer phone: +1-917-287-2675 twitter: esammer data: www.cloudera.com
