I also agree we should stop using MapReduce because of its lack of support for Crystal Reports. /s Kidding aside it's easy to bash a paper like this with the b

I also agree we should stop using MapReduce because of its lack of support for Crystal Reports. /s Kidding aside it's easy to bash a paper like this with the benefit of hindsight and move on. But instead look at what we can take from it. The benefit of new tech isn't always by being better than old tech at its strengths, it can also be by being better at old tech at its weaknesses and finding a way to change the problem domain so that its strengths don't matter much.