hello sajhabasi
anybody has info on big data and hadoop? i need a career change. whats job prospect and how difficult to learn? will the market grow for big data/ hadoop or bubble gonna burst soon. how much consultancy pay at start and how much it can go with 2-3 years of experience. i would love if somebody working in this field give his valuable info.
jay nepal

Big data is a so big world. Not trying to discourage you but I don't think it's a good idea unless you can do Java/Python/Scala/Pig/Unix coding and scripting. It's a cloud computing and quite a different world then RDBMS. Hadoop world is keep on updating with new features and component. Storm, Kafka, Spark, cassandra are some hot trend on big data nowadays.
Learning hadoop is not as simple as other technologies.
You asking 2-3 years of experience? How you gonna show your experience to consultancy? Most of consultancies don't care about your years of experience. All it matters is your contribution to the consultancy. If you are working long enough to any consultancy and accordingly you will have raise. Most of consultancies have terms and contract. Longer you work for them higher the rate you will get.