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What is MapReduce?

Last updated Sep 7, 2022 - Edit Source

MapReduce is a programming paradigm that enables massive scalability across hundreds or thousands of servers in a Hadoop cluster. As the processing component, MapReduce is the heart of Apache Hadoop. The term “MapReduce” refers to two separate and distinct tasks that Apache Hadoop programs perform.