
Another Triumph for Computing in SLOOW Motion( or Why the choice of a toy elephant is appropriate)
Running at 1/30th of equivalent C/C++ implementations Hadoop creates a new standard for doing it slow across large numbers of machines. Don't plan on using this elephant right away. From experience all of the how-to's and interfaces are now out of date and you will have to wait for a new set of e-books to buy. Once up it will take daily care and feeding to keep it from crashing. I for one would like to see them fix their installs so they actually work out of the box rather than working to bump release numbers....