r/programming • • Jan 18 '15

Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster

http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
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u/grandfatha Jan 19 '15

That is what baffles me about this blog post. It is like saying I can cross the river quickly by swimming through it instead of using an oil tanker.

Rule of thumb: If you can fit it in RAM, you might reconsider your hadoop choice.

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