Client Overview
- One of the top 10 banks in the US. One of the first use cases for Hadoop in banking
Business Need
- Off-load the primary EDW running on Teradata as it was running out of capacity and performance was slow.
- Create a modern data architecture using Hadoop to add the ability to integrate unstructured data
Solution
- Modern data architecture with Hadoop as the central source of truth
- Data from mainframes was pulled into Hadoop
- ETL jobs migrated from Teradata to Hadoop to reduce load on Teradata, increase its performance and prolong its life
Benefits
- Teradata performance improved dramatically after data and jobs off-load
- Savings of over $100 million over 5 years estimated by customer
- Custom, sophisticated libraries provided enhanced functions in Hadoop