This is 100% true. Hadoop gets way too much attention given the other useful solutions that exist out there. I have known people to use Disco successfully on

This is 100% true. Hadoop gets way too much attention given the other useful solutions that exist out there. I have known people to use Disco successfully on several hundred node cluster. You can also interact Disco with IPython parallel much more easily. This is why we include it in Linux versions of Anaconda.