Hadoop mobile application

Question

We are students and planning to port Hadoop on android platform. Can anyone suggest a hadoop application that would justify use of a MapReduce framework on mobile application?

Answer 1

I can think of two usefull applications

1. Some kind of management console on android that allows me to control a cluster.
2. Perhaps there is a need for mobile applications that defer the required compute power to a remote cluster.

Running a cluster on android itself seems like a waste of effort to me because of the processing power and battery limitations.

Answer 2

I agree with Niels Basjes.. I am working on a project now in my final year of engg in Pune.. I myself wanted to do something like this.. My project involves running mapreduce jobs on the log files generated from a website and deriving useful statistics from it and displaying it as a graph.. Amongst the things I thought about was to use an android phone and call mapreduce jobs from it. The jar file of the job will reside in the server. Once the server makes computations, it can give back the result to the android phone in form of a graph.. SO in my opinion, having hadoop on android phone wont serve any purpose as having a cluster of 200 MB phone memory is as good as not using hadoop at all.. You could instead try something else where the computing power of hadoop is realized by making client(android phone)/server(hadoop server) calls..