Google Caffeine Drops MapReduce, Adds "Colossus" 65
An anonymous reader writes "With its new Caffeine search indexing system, Google has moved away from its MapReduce distributed number crunching platform in favor of a setup that mirrors database programming. The index is stored in Google's BigTable distributed database, and Caffeine allows for incremental changes to the database itself. The system also uses an update to the Google File System codenamed 'Colossus.'"
There is another... (Score:2, Funny)
So does that mean Microsoft is developing a competeing distributed computing system called "Guardian"? And how does that possibly seem like a good idea?
Awesome choice of name. (Score:5, Funny)
"This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. [...] We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple."
-Colossus.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/ [imdb.com]
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Re:Well, then. (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Sounds inefficient (Score:3, Funny)