Sorta, depends on your workload and if you are a solo hero dev or if you are an enterprise requiring shared data resources. For 16TB you'll definitely get bene

Sorta, depends on your workload and if you are a solo hero dev or if you are an enterprise requiring shared data resources. For 16TB you'll definitely get benefits if you are doing something embarrassingly parallel and processor bound over a cluster of a handful of machines. It's just parallelism, and it's a good thing. I totally agree about the hundreds of Gigs - that is unless you are in a setting where many teams need to access that database and join it with others, in which case a proper data lake implemented on something beefy is a good idea. Hadoop has the benefit of distribution and replication, but another data warehouse might work better - say Oracle or Teradata if you are a small shop.