Big Data as an industry buzzword doesn’t appear to be fading in popularity any time soon. Big Data is more of a business problem and everyone agrees with the Big Data definitions currently in use that ...

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 ...

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on ...