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by BrianLy 5277 days ago
Is Hadoop really approachable for most businesses who don't have a some sort of large-scale need for analytics?

Last time I looked there were things like Pig (http://pig.apache.org/) but the use case was "big data". Many businesses use RDBMs exclusively and can easily use analytics tools like Business Objects. Companies may be dealing with what they consider to be a lot of data but it pales in comparison to what many web startups are dealing with.