Hadoop may be hot, but it needs to be useful
Gigaom
Hadoop is a very valuable tool, but it’s far from perfect. One potential concern for businesses whose primary products don’t end in .com is that it was built with the web in mind. That means it was designed for massively scaled architectures and to handle petabytes of data, and that implementing and managing it can require a team of Ph.D.-level engineers.
For companies that don’t operate at webscale certain aspects of Hadoop look like overkill, and getting it to address their specific needs look like Herculean chores. For these companies, Hadoop just has to be useful.
