SAN DIEGO-Data analytics infrastructure provider Teradata, which released its first Aster Data-based database and a new MapReduce “big data” implementation two weeks ago, announced Oct. 3 that ...

Hadoop’s MapReduce programming model facilitates parallel processing. Developers specify a map function to process input data and produce intermediate key-value pairs.

Hadoop and MapReduce, the parallel programming paradigm and API originally behind Hadoop, used to be synonymous. Nowadays when we talk about Hadoop, we mostly talk about an ecosystem of tools ...