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api on April 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Dark Side of Hadoop

I never got the Hadoop craze. It performs terribly on memory and CPU, which is odd for something that prides itself on being HPC-oriented.

tluyben2 on April 23, 2011 [–]

Alternatives?

Edit: Real alternatives I mean; something OSS (free is not so important, but no lock-in), able to manage huge amounts of data, actively developed, active projects built on top.

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