Google patents Map/Reduce
Jan 20, 2010, 18:03 (3 Talkback[s])
"The technique is used widely by data mining companies, for
example, in Yahoo's search infrastructure, Amazon's Elastic
MapReduce service and IBM's M2 platform. The Apache Hadoop project
is the most prominent open source implementation of the
technique.
"The concept of mapping and reducing fuctions has been a
fundamental idea behind distributed parallel processing for many
years..."
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