Tag: Caffeine
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Colossus: Google dumps MapReduce in favor of BigTable
El Reg has an exclusive interview with Eisar Lipkovitz, a senior director of engineering at Google, who states that their recent search engine update “Caffeine” moves Google’s back-end indexing system away from MapReduce and onto BigTable. Colossus is apparently their codename for v2 of GFS. Todd Hoffs then provides some further analysis in Google’s Colossus…
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