MapReduce was invented by Google in 2004, made into the Hadoop open source project by Yahoo! in 2007, and now is being used increasingly as a massively parallel data processing engine for Big Data.

Sybase CTO Irfan Khan said that adding MapReduce functionality to the Sybase IQ analytic should significantly boost its performance. Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database ...

Scaleout Software, a provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), announced the availability of ScaleOut hServer V2, which incorporates new technology to run Hadoop MapReduce on live data. This new ...

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Urs Holzle, the senior vice president of technical infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google and Google's eighth employee, announced Google is not using MapReduce anymore. But don't you worry, this ...

Finding frequent itemsets is one of the most important fields of data mining. Apriori algorithm is the most established algorithm for finding frequent itemsets from a transactional dataset; however, ...

Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert. Facebook has released source code for scheduling workloads on the Apache Hadoop data ...