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by tonyt 5349 days ago
It can't be that bad, Oracle are shipping it in their new Big Data Appliance.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/oracles-big-data-appliance....

It's probably more an issue of easily pre-filtering/aggregating the data before analysing it with R. I like this approach of moving the calculation to the data, but we must be very late on the adoption curve if Oracle are doing it already.