Hi Simon, MapReduce is a framework developed by Google that uses a programming model based in two functions called Map and Reduce,
Both the framework and the programming model are called MapReduce, right? Hadoop is an open-source implementation of MapReduce. HTH, -- Edson Ramiro Lucas Filho http://www.inf.ufpr.br/erlf07/ On 10 June 2010 17:40, Simon Narowki <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Abhishek for your answer. But sorry still I don't understand... What > do you mean by the "the runtime/programming support needed for MapReduce"? > > Could you please mention some other implementations of MapReduce? > > Cheers > Simon > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:35 PM, abhishek sharma <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hadoop is an open source implementation of the runtime/programming > > support needed for MapReduce. > > Several different implementations of MapReduce are possible. Google > > has its own that is different from Hadoop. > > > > Abhishek > > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Simon Narowki <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I am a new Hadoop user and am confused a little bit about the > difference > > > between Hadoop and MapReduce. Could anyone please clear me? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Simon > > > > > >
