Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster
Antony I.T. Rowstron, Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Greg O’Shea, Andrew Douglas · 2012
The norm for data analytics is now to run them on commodity clusters with MapReduce-like abstractions. One only needs to read the popular blogs to see the evidence of this. We believe that we could now say that "nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster"!