[t0]

$93/month seems a bit outrageous. What do they offer that makes it worth this much?

[tonfa]

The fastest (at least in term of terasort) hadoop platform?

[IheartApplesDix]

Is that a question or a statement?

[espeed]

MapR breaks the Hadoop TeraSort world record using Google Compute Engine (https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDevelopers/posts/NURRXZ985XV)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQzMoy41_k

[DonnyV]

Yeah and thats only for single vcore. Maybe for 2 vcores. Do you really need 420GB for single. How about half that and give me another vcore.

[tomash]

It's Google, so you have a guarantee it won't be shut down in the near future.

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