If you have less than a petabyte of data you don't need Hadoop

John Leonard
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'Use it when you need it but when you don't, don't bother,' says Vincent de Lagabbe, CTO of bitcoin analysis firm Kaiko

Hadoop is unnecessary for smaller projects, and most firms should avoid using it unless they have to. That's according to Vincent de Lagabbe, CTO of Kaiko, a company that offers real-time tracki...

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