In what could best be termed a photo finish, Greenplum and Aster Data Systems have both announced that they have integrated MapReduce into their massively parallel processing (MPP) database engines.

Google introduced the MapReduce algorithm to perform massively parallel processing of very large data sets using clusters of commodity hardware. MapReduce is a core Google technology and key to ...

Aster Da ta, which provides data management and data processing platform for big data analytic applications, today announced the delivery of over 30 ready-to-use advanced analytic packages and more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scaleout Software, a provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), announced the availability of ScaleOut hServer V2, which incorporates new technology to run Hadoop MapReduce on live data. This new ...

https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Greenplum+Inc..html and Aster Data Systems, two startups involved in large-scale data analysis, announced this week that their products ...

The MapReduce paradigm has emerged as a transformative framework for processing vast datasets by decomposing complex tasks into simpler map and reduce functions. This approach has been instrumental in ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...