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MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool

By Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat
Communications of the ACM, January 2010, Vol. 53 No. 1, Pages 72-77
10.1145/1629175.1629198
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MapReduce advantages over parallel databases include storage-system independence and fine-grain fault tolerance for large jobs.

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CACM Administrator

December 29, 2009 11:47

Related blog-based commentary is available at
http://www.searchenginecaffe.com/2009/12/dean-and-ghemawat-strike-back-on.html

CACM Administrator

January 04, 2010 12:46

Related blog-based commentary is available at
http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/defense-mapreduce-bioinformatics

Anonymous

September 22, 2011 11:24

A dialog between the Database researchers and Industry engineers is helpful.
For different use cases, users need different solutions. Scripting languages can be used as glue for different low level languages. Map Reduce and related tools can also be used as glue for different data storage & processing systems.

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