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In its mission to bring to world+dog the joys of Hadoop - that open-source grid-computing platform based on Google arrogance - Cloudera has out-Amazoned Amazon. Today, the star-studded Hadoop startup told the world that its commercial stuffed-elephant distro can now be run on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in tandem with …

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  1. spencer
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    condescending?

    "mapping epic data-crunching tasks across a sea of machines - i.e. splitting them into tiny sub-tasks - before reducing the results into one master calculation."

    I think anyone who's done an a-level in either math or computing knows what map and reduce mean.

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  2. Jon 66
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    terribly sorry to darken your website with my inferior school attainments

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