MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL 99
CurtMonash writes "MapReduce sits at the heart of Google's data processing — and Yahoo's, Facebook's and LinkedIn's as well. But it's been highly controversial, due to an apparent conflict with standard data warehousing common sense. Now two data warehouse DBMS vendors, Greenplum and Aster Data, have announced the integration of MapReduce into their SQL database managers. I think MapReduce could give a major boost to high-end analytics, specifically to applications in three areas: 1) Text tokenization, indexing, and search; 2) Creation of other kinds of data structures (e.g., graphs); and 3) Data mining and machine learning. (Data transformation may belong on that list as well.) All these areas could yield better results if there were better performance, and MapReduce offers the possibility of major processing speed-ups."
Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? (Score:5, Funny)
and can I run Linux on it? Or it on Linux? Is it available for my iPhone?
Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? (Score:5, Funny)
MapReduce is the algorithm used to determine the optimum folding pattern used to reduce a standard road map back into its folded state. Duh.
Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? (Score:4, Funny)
and can I run Linux on it? Or it on Linux?
Have you ever considered that it might itself be a distro? A, like, super-leet distro that the big Valley firms have been hacking together for the past ten years, only giving access to employees that sign a super-nasty NDA? A disto that traces back to a Photoshop 1.0 plugin for resizing GIFs?
Re:MySQL has no common sense anyway. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Not like MySQL cared about data integrity in the past. . . whay start now?!
Gaaah! Data corruption!
Your post must have been stored in MySQL...
Re:Mmm.. MapReduce is LISP (Score:5, Funny)
Well done, AC. You've exposed their dirty little Scheme.
Re:Mmm.. MapReduce is LISP (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, they're out to Steele LISP's imaginary property.
Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? (Score:2, Funny)
Why can't they just look at the creases? Duuuuuuh.
Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a little dyslexic. I immediately see the wheelbarrow as a MySQL icon (which is almost universally a MySQL article) and read _M_apReduce into SQL = MYSQL in the title. This is proof I'm a reactionary blowhard who often fails to comprehend the summary, much less read the article.
There is no link because my wrongometer is not working, it has melted through its resin casing.