Completely agree. I should have elaborated more on that, thanks for bringing it up. In many cases you can have a significantly lower memory profile. In a worst

Completely agree. I should have elaborated more on that, thanks for bringing it up. In many cases you can have a significantly lower memory profile. In a worst case it's the same as MapReduce (as you said). I think having the additional flexibility with memory, in addition to the simpler architecture and performance attributes, makes HashFold an attractive alternative.