The paper introducing graphchi has dozens of examples of graphchi on a mac mini running rings around 10-100 machine hadoop clusters - http://graphlab.org/graphc

The paper introducing graphchi has dozens of examples of graphchi on a mac mini running rings around 10-100 machine hadoop clusters - http://graphlab.org/graphchi/ http://graphlab.org/graphchi/ I worked on a project earlier this year that was envisioned as a hadoop setup. The end result was a 200loc python script that runs as a daily batch job - https://github.com/jamii/springer-recommendations https://github.com/jamii/springer-recommendations I'm tempted to setup a business selling 'medium-data' solutions, for people who think they need hadoop.