There was a fairly long discussion on this topic at the beginning of the year FYI:
http://search-hadoop.com/m/JvSQe2wNlY11 On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Chris Song <[email protected]> wrote: > Why hadoop should be built in JAVA? > > For integrity and stability, it is good for hadoop to be implemented in > Java > > But, when it comes to speed issue, I have a question... > > How will it be if HADOOP is implemented in C or Phython? >
