By Sam Groth, Senior Software Engineer, Verizon Media Do you have data in Apache Hadoop using Apache HDFS that is made available with Apache Hive? Do you spend too much time manually cleaning old data or maintaining multiple scripts? In this post, we will share why we created and open sourced the Data Disposal tool, as well as, how you can use it. Data retention is the process of keeping useful data and deleting data that may no longer be proper to store. Why delete data? It could be too old,...
