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		treve on Jan 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop ... What makes 2TB the cutoff?

wobbleblob on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

I think the consensus is that as long as your data fits on a single (affordable) machine, 'big data' tools are probably not the best solution.

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