Well TBH you do get to pick which Hadoop-related components need to run, HDFS's Datanode itself is happy with just a bit of RAM. I do understand the concern tho

Well TBH you do get to pick which Hadoop-related components need to run, HDFS's Datanode itself is happy with just a bit of RAM. I do understand the concern though. You're probably happy with what you have in prod but if you get some time to try out Kudu feel free to drop by our Slack channel for a chat! http://getkudu.io/community.html http://getkudu.io/community.html