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Google claims MapReduce sets data-sorting record, topping Yahoo, conventional databases
Published 11/24/2008 by eric_lai@computerworld.com at Latest from Computerworld
MapReduce reportedly took 6 hours and two minutes to sort 1 petabyte of data -- equivalent to 12 times the amount of archived Web data in the U.S. Library of Congress as of May 2008.
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