The USPTO awarded search giant Google a software method patent that covers the principle of distributed MapReduce, a strategy for parallel processing that is used by the search giant. If Google ...

Google的Jeff Dean和Sanjay Ghemawat近日披露，Google庞大的分布式计算集群现在平均每天都要处理20PB(20000TB)以上的数据，三大核心技术之一的MapReduce每天工作量超过10万个。 在2007年9月，MapReduce的工作量多达221.7万个，平均完成时间395秒，平均每个工作使用394台机器 ...

据GigaOM消息，Google上周宣布，将自己用C++开发的MapReduce框架MapReduce for C（MR4C）开源，此举可给Hadoop社区带来福音，因为这样用户就可以在自己的Hadoop环境中运行原生的C及C++代码了。 Hadoop是许多大数据应用的基础，它是由Apache基金会所开发的分布式系统基础架构 ...

Google on Wednesday launched Cloud Dataflow, a big data analytics service to crunch information in either streaming or batch mode. The announcement, made at Google's I/O keynote in San Francisco, ...

Google today pledged that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers who have implemented open-source versions of its MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets, even though ...

Google made it blatantly clear they’re taking a stand on open source software. There’s no mistaking their unwavering support for open platforms. “Open-source software has been at the root of many ...

Google Inc. late last week claimed that results of in-house data-sorting tests bolster its claims that its MapReduce technology can manipulate more data faster than any conventional database.

A team of researchers will release on Tuesday a paper showing that parallel SQL databases perform up to 6.5 times faster than Google Inc.’s MapReduce data-crunching technology. Google bypassed ...

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 ...

One day in March of 2000, six of Google’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. In October, its core systems, which crawled the ...