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by colin_mccabe 3670 days ago
Big data systems aren't about squeezing every drop of performance out of the hardware. They're about being able to scale your solution up effortlessly. Having a uniform programming model so that you don't have to rewrite your solution N times when you go from a small test dataset to production data, to 1000x the data. It's also about using a system that other people use, so that you can actually hire admins and service companies with experience in maintaining your solution.