It seems like Hadoop will move into areas where it shines -- namely custom bulk processing of medium to large files. Big data is an umbrella for a lot of differ

It seems like Hadoop will move into areas where it shines -- namely custom bulk processing of medium to large files. Big data is an umbrella for a lot of different areas (click stream processing, financial analysis, image & video processing). When it comes to processing large datasets you really need tools designed for each particular type of data to obtain the performance you need. Hadoop was a nice general purpose tool but niche-specific tools will eventually supersede it for many types of processing.