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It also doesn't help that the Hadoop ecosystem is unstable, insecure, and overkill for the vast majority of the use-cases out there. Cloudera can also be thrown into the same bucket when they will no doubt file next year.

IMHO Hadoop just doesn't have a viable business model behind it. The people that really need a big data solution will run it themselves, and the people that don't (who will have it shoved down their throats all in the name of big data anyways) will unsuccessfully run it for a year or two before scrapping it for a better, more appropriate solution.