The video interview in the above link is particularly cool. Hadoop seems to be the quasi-secret sauce in a number of projects. A comparison between Hadoop and

The video interview in the above link is particularly cool. Hadoop seems to be the quasi-secret sauce in a number of projects. A comparison between Hadoop and Google's Sawzall is at: http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/04/yahoo-pig-and-google-sawzall.html http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/04/yahoo-pig-and-google-saw... The NLP search engine Powerset also uses it. http://blog.powerset.com/2007/10/16/powerset-empowered-by-hadoop http://blog.powerset.com/2007/10/16/powerset-empowered-by-ha...