> The main reasons for choosing Hadoop were scale, a desire to unify data, and technical curiosity on the part of Blackboard engineers. > Blackboard was moving

> The main reasons for choosing Hadoop were scale, a desire to unify data, and technical curiosity on the part of Blackboard engineers. > Blackboard was moving JSON data exhaust from a relational database into Hadoop and then back out into a Postgres database, where it could be analyze using SQL. Looks like the wrong tool for the job. I like this quote at the end: > It’s free like a puppy, not free like a beer.