In what could best be termed a photo finish, Greenplum and Aster Data Systems have both announced that they have integrated MapReduce into their massively parallel processing (MPP) database engines.

Hadoop has been widely embraced for its ability to economically store and analyze large data sets. Using parallel computing techniques like MapReduce, Hadoop can reduce long computation times to hours ...

When Hadoop first started gaining attention and early adoption it was inseparable – both technologically and rhetorically – from MapReduce, its then-venerable big data-processing algorithm. But that’s ...

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BELLEVUE, WA--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2013) - ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), today announced the general availability of ScaleOut hServer V2, incorporating new ...

This implementation is intended for illustration purposes only and the examples lack exception handling acceptable for production systems. Beyond showcasing an implementation of the MapReduce concept, ...

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 on ...

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Hadoop MapReduce has been widely embraced for analyzing large, static data sets. New technology integrates a stand-alone MapReduce engine into an in-memory data grid, enabling real-time analytics on ...