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		joshwa on Jan 18, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Sha... I think perhaps the original authors were really thinking of BigTable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtable

neilc on Jan 18, 2008 [–]

What makes you think that? I think DeWitt and Stonebraker can distinguish between BigTable and MapReduce (indeed, their blog post mentions BigTable and Hadoop as well).

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