Well TBH you do get to pick which Hadoop-related components need to run, HDFS&#x27;s Datanode itself is happy with just a bit of RAM. I do understand the concern though.<p>You&#x27;re probably happy with what you have in prod but if you get some time to try out Kudu feel free to drop by our Slack channel for a chat! <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getkudu.io&#x2F;community.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getkudu.io&#x2F;community.html</a>