MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster ...

MapReduce is, as covered in the class, a fault-tolerant distributed system for large-scale computation. MapReduce programming is one of major parts in our programming assignment 6. We use MapReduce to ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with 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 ...

I've installed Hadoop-2.2.0 and I'm able to run the hadoop samples just fine from the command line. Interested in using Spring though so I tried this sample. Whenever ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

In my last post, I explained MapReduce in terms of a hypothetical exercise: counting up all the smartphones in the Empire State Building. My idea was to have the fire wardens count up the number of ...