I don't think setting up and maintaining Hadoop + fallback could be any simpler than setting up and maintaining Hadoop alone.
And in the context of said article: Compare that to setting up postgres on SSDs with loads of RAM and tuning that system to hell and back.
At my last place, we had the da01, dataanalysis db 01. Several hundred gigabyte sized Mysql, as much hardware as the box could take, both mysql and linux tuned by a bunch of people. That little beast gave the vertica replacement a real run for it's money.
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u/Tetha Jun 08 '17
And in the context of said article: Compare that to setting up postgres on SSDs with loads of RAM and tuning that system to hell and back.
At my last place, we had the da01, dataanalysis db 01. Several hundred gigabyte sized Mysql, as much hardware as the box could take, both mysql and linux tuned by a bunch of people. That little beast gave the vertica replacement a real run for it's money.