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Hadoop Migration Guide

A proven, phase-by-phase framework for migrating your legacy EDW, Data Lake, and ETL pipelines to Hadoop Migration faster and with full confidence.

Hadoop Migration Guide
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What Next Pathway's Hadoop Migration Guide covers

A successful Hadoop migration requires a structured, phase by phase approach across discovery, code translation, validation, and cutover. Next Pathway's Hadoop Migration Guide gives your team a complete roadmap, built on the same automation Next Pathway uses to deliver enterprise migrations end to end.

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Discover and Assess Your Hadoop Environment

Scan and catalog your Hadoop environment across ETL pipelines, scheduler jobs, downstream applications, and legacy code dependencies. Build a clear inventory of what needs to move before migration begins. This phase helps teams reduce blind spots and improve migration planning accuracy.

Automate Code Translation

Translate SQL, stored procedures, ETL workflows, and other code objects with automation instead of manual redevelopment. SHIFT handles large scale code conversion while accounting for performance and optimization requirements. This phase helps accelerate delivery timelines and reduce migration complexity.

Validate and Prepare for Cutover

Automate data validation and compare results between legacy and cloud environments before production cutover. Verify that migrated workloads perform correctly and that testing is complete before go live. This phase helps teams move to the cloud with greater confidence and fewer post migration issues.

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Faster time-to-market for AI-ready infrastructure

Latest Snowflake Case Study

Next Pathway helped a UK-based asset management leader migrate from Azure Synapse and Azure Data Factory to Snowflake with zero business disruption and 100% automated code translation.

Read the case study to see how Next Pathway delivered:

End-to-end migration completed in just 10 months
100% automated code translation with SHIFT
Seamless compliance and financial reporting throughout cutover
Real-time analytics and AI-ready data on a unified platform
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What Industry Analysts Say

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Rob Enderle

ENDERLE GROUP

"Next Pathway is providing a solution that accelerates the migration process, giving organizations a faster route to realizing value from their data."
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Eric Kavanagh

THE BLOOR GROUP

"SHIFT Cloud enables a remarkably swift and robust transition from traditional data warehousing to the cloud."

What a structured Hadoop migration covers

A successful Hadoop migration requires a clear plan across four disciplines.

Discovery and dependency mapping

Every code object, ETL pipeline, and data dependency needs to be identified and documented before migration begins. Hidden complexity discovered mid-migration creates delays and risk.

Code translation and modernization

Legacy SQL, Hive scripts, Spark jobs, and ETL pipelines must be converted into optimized cloud-native workloads. Automated translation reduces manual effort and improves consistency.

Validation and functional parity

Every migrated workload must be validated against the legacy source to confirm data accuracy and functional equivalence before cutover. Full parity is critical for success.

Production cutover planning

Cutover requires a defined plan covering resource allocation, rollback decisions, and business sign-off. Teams that prepare early execute migrations faster and with greater confidence.

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Cloud Migration Resources

Azure Data Migration Checklist
Azure Data Migration Checklist

A step-by-step checklist for enterprises to ensure a smooth migration to Azure Synapse.

Data Migration Checklist
Data Migration Checklist

Ensure your steps are fully covered in your Data migration.

Oracle to Azure Synapse Analytics Cloud Migration Checklist
Oracle to Azure Synapse Analytics Cloud Migration Checklist

Fully plan, translate & cut-over to Azure Synapse quickly.

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