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by eloff 1944 days ago
> I’ve also seen a switch from rdbms to Hadoop because a company had “millions” of rows. Luckily on this one I only had to rewrite a handful of queries.

Wat. That's gross. It probably costs them more per query now than the rdbms did.

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Didn’t even think about that part because I don’t know too much about Hadoop other than it seemed impractical.