The Past It was mid 2011, I had been developing HDFS/HBase for five years and I was in love with the Hadoop ecosystem. Here is a system that can store and query hundreds of petabytes of data without blinking an eye. Hadoop has always focussed on scalability first and Hadoop's scalability was increasing by leaps and bounds. It was apparent that we will be able to store an exabyte of data in a singl