First, Hadoop has two parts, HDFS and MapReduce. This so called benchmark, compares only the computation part of it. For people who say Hadoop is slow, they never really understood what Hadoop is. MapReduce is meant for processing big data in a batch oriented way and not meant for real time analytics. However, there are many technologies that work on top of Hadoop that will give real time analytics capabilities like HBase,and Impala. Column oriented storage is available in Hadoop too, Parquet. Also with the Hadoop, the real power comes with the availability of UDFs and streaming. Please don't do any stupid benchmark like this without getting to know what you are comparing to.