We benefited greatly from Hadoop and it's legacy. Hadoop solves hard problems for some of the biggest companies. On the other hand it is very complicated to install and manage. Additionally HBase still has a ways to go with bindings in other languages and availability. By fixing this it should expand the set of use cases that Hadoop can be applied to.

We think we have built an enhanced version of the bottom of Hadoop that is a pleasure to run. We hope you find it pleasurable as well.