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 ...

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 ...

A recent article on the Database Column by David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker attempts to compare the increasingly popular MapReduce programming paradigm to a relational database. The blogsphere ...

Cloud and grid software provider Platform Computing has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model.

The core components of Apache Hadoop are the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and the MapReduce programming model.

Making MapReduce applications usable by anyone with a SQL skill-set. Enabling rich analytic applications to be built in days due to the simplicity of SQL-MapReduce and Aster Data’s suite of pre ...