HadoopDB reconciles SQL with Map/Reduce

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 22, 2009 6:30 PM EDT
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Opponents of SQL had their hands strengthened when Google's SQL-free technique, "Map/Reduce", showed it could search databases measured in petabytes. They look on relational databases as antiquated, a technique that can't cope with today's quantities of data or meet the requirements of full-text searching. Rather than relations, they rely on key-value pairs.

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