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 ...

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 ...

To many, Big Data goes hand-in-hand with Hadoop + MapReduce. But MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) and data warehouse appliances are Big Data technologies too. The MapReduce and MPP worlds have ...

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 ...

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

Platform Computing offers a distributed analytics platform that is fully compatible with 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.

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 ...