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		earle on May 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit This is pretty meaningless -- there's already a THRIFT interface which allows easy job creation and control as well as HadoopStreaming which allows access to creating map-reduce jobs for anything using stdin/stdout. This has dubious benefit, and just adds another unnecessary layer into this process. I'm not sure why this is news.

aaronblohowiak on May 11, 2009 [–]

This is a convenience layer, and it comes with a way to run your map/reduce without having to have hadoop on your dev box.

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