The website "billiger.de", a brand of solute GmbH, is one of the largest and most clicked online price comparison portals in Germany. This platform helps consumers to find low-priced offers at online shops. Detailed product information makes it easier to decide between millions of offers from thousands of shops. These offers are updated several times a day, ensuring transparency and an overview of the online market for retailers and consumers. The amount of data to be processed is correspondingly high.
solute chose the promising future technology Hadoop as its platform. Hadoop is a free framework which, thanks to its interfaces and scalability, can be used flexibly, cost-effectively and efficiently - especially with polystructured mass data. solute created a system on a greenfield site and quickly realised that due to the complexity and scope of the project external consulting was needed...