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Re:Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015) by o1lab on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:23AM (#23516536)
>> (even if it was a little ridiculous to fire up a cluster for something Excel or SQLite could handle)

I know above comment will be lost - but this is such a genuine truth.

Re:Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015) by ses1984 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:13AM (#23517427)
I'm sorry but if your problem can be solved on excel then hire people who are good with excel, not people good with Hadoop.
Re:Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015) by MaysonL on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:10AM (#23518215)
Things tend to evolve - a system that worked on excel yesterday may well be a dangerous un maintainable monster next week.