hehe .... sorry but this does not help :-) i can google for wikipedia definitions. I was hoping for some really good articles/examples that would put it into enough context. I would like to have good idea when it could be useful. So far had no luck with that. Its like with design patterns ... people who dont understand them should not write articles trying to explain them to others :P Art On 22 October 2010 15:29, Andrés G. Montañez <andresmontanez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Artur, > > Here is an article on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce > > And here are the native implementations in php: > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-map.php > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-reduce.php > > The basic idea is to gather a lot of data, from several nodes, and > "map" them togheter; > then, assuming a lot of this data is repeated across the dataset, we > "reduce" them. > > > Cheers. > > On 22 October 2010 12:14, Artur Ejsmont <ejsmont.artur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi there guys and girls >> >> Have anyone came across any reasonable explanation / articles on how >> hadoop and map reduce work in practice? >> >> i have read a few articles now and then and i must say i am puzzled >> .... am i stupid or they just cant find an easy way to explain it? :P >> >> What i would hope for is explanation on simple example of application >> with some code samples preferably. >> >> anyone good at it here? >> >> cheers >> >> -- >> PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > > > -- > Andrés G. Montañez > Zend Certified Engineer > Montevideo - Uruguay > -- Visit me at: http://artur.ejsmont.org/blog/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
