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Introduction to MapReduce

Introduction to MapReduce

Let's find the inspiration behind MapReduce. Also, look into the goal and the working of MapReduce.

MapReduce is a framework for batch data processing originally developed internally in Google by Dean et al… It was later incorporated in the wider Apache Hadoop framework.

Inspiration

The framework draws inspiration from the field of functional programming and is based on the following main idea:

Idea

Many real-word computations can be expressed with the use of two main primitive functions, map and ...