News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark.

Re:Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark by joshwa on Friday January 18, 2008 @01:06AM (#100194)
I think perhaps the original authors were really thinking of BigTable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtable

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark by neilc on Friday January 18, 2008 @03:13AM (#100229)
What makes you think that? I think DeWitt and Stonebraker can distinguish between BigTable and MapReduce (indeed, their blog post mentions BigTable and Hadoop as well).
[ Parent | on HN ]