The now freely available framework that gave Google infinite ability to acquire and manipulate data. It describes a way to distribute the power of a master node over an infinite number of worker nodes.
The canonical example application of MapReduce is a process to count the appearances of each different word in a set of documents:
void map(String name, String document):
// name: document name
// document: document contents
for each word w in document:
EmitIntermediate(w, "1");
void reduce(String word, Iterator partialCounts):
// word: a word
// partialCounts: a list of aggregated partial counts
int sum = 0;
for each pc in partialCounts:
sum += ParseInt(pc);
Emit(word, AsString(sum));
-From Wikipedia
void map(String name, String document):
// name: document name
// document: document contents
for each word w in document:
EmitIntermediate(w, "1");
void reduce(String word, Iterator partialCounts):
// word: a word
// partialCounts: a list of aggregated partial counts
int sum = 0;
for each pc in partialCounts:
sum += ParseInt(pc);
Emit(word, AsString(sum));
-From Wikipedia
by Yosemite Sam February 28, 2012