On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:43:16AM -0800, Doug Judd wrote: > Good point, then at the very least it should be called Map-Sort-Reduce, > where all of the phases are optional. :) >
If the name is going to include everything that the MapReduce implementation gives you, you might have to call it Map-Sort-Reduce-with-Load-Balancing-and-Fault-Tolerance-and-More. :) Here's how I think about it: it's MapReduce because the programmer provides a Map function and a Reduce function and everything else happens automatically. Isn't it great that the programmer doesn't even have to worry about the sort? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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