Actually, one of the most reliable ways to kill a database is to use it as
input or output for even a small Hadoop cluster.  Having hundreds of
processes all open connections and read at once is fairly abusive.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> A relational database is not a common data source for Hadoop. Not that it
> couldn't be, it's just that Hadoop operates by sequentially accessing
> petabytes of potentially unstructured data. A relational database would be
> expensive overkill for just storing huge blobs.
>

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