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Amazon has juiced its Big-Data-crunching Elastic MapReduce service, announcing support for Hive, the SQL-like query engine for the open-source Hadoop platform that underpins the service. Hadoop mimics the GFS and MapReduce platforms that drive Google's back-end infrastructure, and with Elastic MapReduce, Amazon sits the open …

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  1. Eddie 4

    eh?

    Does anyone understand any of this?http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/wtf_32.png

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  2. clod computing is big
    FAIL

    evaporating clouds

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/fail_32.png

    At least I do understand that sometimes these things break and the consequences can affect a lot of people - like those of us with projects housed at the otherwise wonderful http://bitbucket.org/ as at Friday/Saturday oct 3 - it's down with a bad case of missingness.

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