Hadoop is buzzword compliant, but every use of it that I've met was unjustified - it made things 10 times slower, more complicated and fragile compared to a str

Hadoop is buzzword compliant, but every use of it that I've met was unjustified - it made things 10 times slower, more complicated and fragile compared to a straightforward mmap implementation. I guess it might start paying back if you can effectively use 100 machines and have them at your disposal - but I have not yet seen evidence of that.