This pretty much sums up most Hadoop projects I've seen at startups: http://wavii.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hadoop_too_big.jpg http://wavii.files.wordpress.co

This pretty much sums up most Hadoop projects I've seen at startups: http://wavii.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hadoop_too_big.jpg http://wavii.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hadoop_too_big.jpg (Originally from this Wavii Engineering blog post http://blog.wavii.com/2011/12/29/your-mileage-may-vary/ http://blog.wavii.com/2011/12/29/your-mileage-may-vary/ )