About MapReduce MapReduce is a programming model specifically implemented for processing large data sets. The model was developed by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat at Google (see “ MapReduce ...

Technical Terms MapReduce: A programming model that simplifies distributed data processing by dividing tasks into map and reduce functions operating in a parallel, fault-tolerant manner.

Hadoop is the most significant concrete technology behind the so called 'Big Data' revolution. Hadoop combines an economical model for storing massive quantities of data - the Hadoop Distributed File ...

Platform Computing, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model to bring enterprise-class distributed computing ...

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Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day ...

Google's patent on MapReduce could potentially pose a problem for those using third-party open source implementations. Patent #7,650,331, which was granted to Google on Tuesday, defines a system ...

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