Urs Holzle, the senior vice president of technical infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google and Google's eighth employee, announced Google is not using MapReduce anymore. But don't you worry, this ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Google has pledged not to sue companies with open-source software that uses technology described in 10 ...

Google Inc. late last week claimed that results of in-house data-sorting tests bolster its claims that its MapReduce technology can manipulate more data faster than any conventional database.

The USPTO awarded search giant Google a software method patent that covers the principle of distributed MapReduce, a strategy for parallel processing that is used by the search giant. If Google ...

Google on Wednesday launched Cloud Dataflow, a big data analytics service to crunch information in either streaming or batch mode. The announcement, made at Google's I/O keynote in San Francisco, ...

Google made it blatantly clear they’re taking a stand on open source software. There’s no mistaking their unwavering support for open platforms. “Open-source software has been at the root of many ...

A team of researchers will release on Tuesday a paper showing that parallel SQL databases perform up to 6.5 times faster than Google Inc.’s MapReduce data-crunching technology. Google bypassed ...

Google today pledged that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers who have implemented open-source versions of its MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets, even though ...

Google announced on Wednesday that the company is open sourcing a MapReduce framework that will let users run native C and C++ code in their Hadoop environments. Depending on how much traction ...