You were on target with the comment that businesses switched to Hadoop because they had trouble with spreadsheets. I've been a culprit in helping folks make tha

You were on target with the comment that businesses switched to Hadoop because they had trouble with spreadsheets. I've been a culprit in helping folks make that transition. I warned them, but they insisted. Who am I to refuse? They had heard Hadoop didn't require conforming to a schema and would allow data-driven insights. What they failed to verify in advance was whether those insights would increase profit. I don't see how any other database-ish technology would change the situation. It ain't the tech, or the analysis, it's the business processes.