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MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL

Posted by kdawson on from the patterns-in-the-data dept.

CurtMonash writes "MapReduce sits at the heart of Google's data processing — and Yahoo's, Facebook's and LinkedIn's as well. But it's been highly controversial, due to an apparent conflict with standard data warehousing common sense. Now two data warehouse DBMS vendors, Greenplum and Aster Data, have announced the integration of MapReduce into their SQL database managers. I think MapReduce could give a major boost to high-end analytics, specifically to applications in three areas: 1) Text tokenization, indexing, and search; 2) Creation of other kinds of data structures (e.g., graphs); and 3) Data mining and machine learning. (Data transformation may belong on that list as well.) All these areas could yield better results if there were better performance, and MapReduce offers the possibility of major processing speed-ups."

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  1. Re:Again Bjarne got it right by johanatan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To most people, C++ is C. :-) Unfortunate but true.

  2. Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably someone who read the post and knows how wrong he is. Like you traverse the web every time you want to look up a search term or how a map is really the same as load balancing...