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 ...

Release 15.4 of the analytic database will feature support for the MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make ...

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 ...

Scaleout Software, a provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), announced the availability of ScaleOut hServer V2, which incorporates new technology to run Hadoop MapReduce on live data. This new ...

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

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.

Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.

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