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>> (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.

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.

Things tend to evolve - a system that worked on excel yesterday may well be a dangerous un maintainable monster next week.