> MapReduce/Hadoop is a soft target at this point because even the cargo culters have realized that the planes ain’t en route. Side question: what is the state

> MapReduce/Hadoop is a soft target at this point because even the cargo culters have realized that the planes ain’t en route. Side question: what is the state of Hadoop? I remember it had a huge ecosystem, but a lot of it seemed half-baked and is dying, so I'm curious how popular it still is, what other tools people are using for massive data transforms, and which parts of the ecosystem (Pig, Hive, etc.) ended up being popular vs. dead ends.