A very common one is processing large quantities of log files and producing summary date. Another use is simply as a way of distributing large jobs across multiple computers. In a previous job, we used Map/Reduce for distributed bulk web crawling, and for distributed media file processing.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Sugandha Naolekar <sugandha....@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello! > > As far as I have read the forums of Map-reduce, it is basically used to > process large amount of data speedily. right?? > > But, can you please give me some instances or examples wherein, I can use > map-reduce..??? > > > > -- > Regards! > Sugandha > -- Alpha Chapters of my book on Hadoop are available http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430219422 www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals
