> Systems like Power System E980 can handle up to 64TB RAM, which is a lot of data. Doesn't that kind of system cost millions of dollars? Hadoop and the like

> Systems like Power System E980 can handle up to 64TB RAM, which is a lot of data. Doesn't that kind of system cost millions of dollars? Hadoop and the like are popular because they run on COTS hardware that costs peanuts. It hardly makes any sense to argue that spending over a million dollars is enough to drop a solution that's primarily adopted because you do not have that kind of money to throw at a problem.