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So what's replacing it in the open source world? What are some real world problems Map Reduce is being used for now that some other solution is better suited fo

by ohashi 12y ago

So what's replacing it in the open source world? What are some real world problems Map Reduce is being used for now that some other solution is better suited for?

toast0 12y ago
A lot of problems people are solving with Hadoop and friends are best solved by getting a big box with lots of ram and lots of SSDs. Current generation dual processor socket server boards go up to 1 TB of ram, a few years ago that kind of ram would require several servers; and the Haswell EP Xeons, expected towards the end of the year will support even more ram.
- EdwardDiego 12y ago
  Argh, there are far too many firms who have Hadoop clusters who don't really need them.
- ohashi 12y ago
  So you're essentially saying it was a stop-gap solution until hardware caught up for many use cases.