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HDFS has never been a good idea or implementation, it was just first and rode the fad wave to wide deployment (also see: mysql, php, javascript, ...). If it we
by seiji 11y ago
HDFS has never been a good idea or implementation, it was just first and rode the fad wave to wide deployment (also see: mysql, php, javascript, ...).
If it were stable and scalable to begin with, there wouldn't be 5 different billion dollar companies offering professional services and customized "fixed hadoop" distributions against the openawfulsource versions.
(from ~3 years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4298580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4298580)
- duggan 11y agoThis is largely what I'm trying to avoid. Looking at the Hadoop toolchain raises more than a few alarm bells, but I don't want to dismiss it too quickly since a lot of people have clearly invested a lot of time into it.