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by darkxanthos 4378 days ago
A lot are. I used to want to just because it was cool. Now that I actually do though my main use case is sifting through hundreds of GB of unstructured data. I use Hadoop to get the data into a structured form that I can then load into Redshift. It's awesome knowing that just about anything I throw at Redshift, it can handle.