In what could best be termed a photo finish, Greenplum and Aster Data Systems have both announced that they have integrated MapReduce into their massively parallel processing (MPP) database engines.

In what could best be termed a photo finish, Greenplum and Aster Data Systems have both announced that they have integrated MapReduce into their massively parallel processing (MPP) database engines.

Over the past four years, MapReduce has become the standard way in which all large-scale data processing is carried out at Google. More than ten thousand distinct MapReduce programs have been ...