Hadoop is an open source implementation of the MapReduce programming model. Hadoop relies not on Google File System (GFS), but on its own Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). HDFS replicates ...

Distributed programming models such as MapReduce enable this type of capability, but the technology was not originally designed with enterprise requirements in mind. Now that MapReduce has been ...

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 ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...

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 ...

Qizmt is a distributed computation framework based on the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor clusters. The company hopes that the developer community will be ...

Cool stuff. Or is it? Likewise, Hadoop Streaming allows developers to use virtually any programming language to create MapReduce jobs. And just like CGI, it’s a bit of a kludge.