That seems partly a reference to this classic article <https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html> https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoo

That seems partly a reference to this classic article <https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html> https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html> "Your data isn't that big". But in this case, it does seem incredibly advantageous to be able to scale up to any number of parallel searches, and to be able to search arbitrary new genomes.