RDBMS Versus MapReduce -- Why the Feud? Just Integrate

by Curt Hall

A schism has been brewing between traditional RDBMS (relational database management system) fans and proponents of the MapReduce data-crunching technology pioneered by Google and made popular by the open source Hadoop framework. This feud is apt to intensify with the upcoming publication of A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis; MapReduce vs. DBMS Benchmarks, a report slated for the June issue of the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGMOD RECORD journal on data management.

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RDBMS Versus MapReduce -- Why the Feud? Just IntegrateTue May 05 08:41:22 CDT 2009

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