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.

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Facebook has shared some more behind-the-scenes information about just how the social network is built, this time centered around the enormous amount of data that it collects. Over half a petabyte of ...

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 ...