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 ...

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

Google today pledged that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers who have implemented open-source versions of its MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets, even ...

The number of people who can implement a highly scalable application that processes petabytes of independent data relationship using the MapReduce programming model and who don’t work for Google ...