The Limitation of MapReduce: A Probing Case and a Lightweight Solution
While we usually see enough papers that deal with the applications of the Map Reduce programming model this one for a change …
Keyword Searching and Browsing in Databases using BANKS
BANKS is a system that enables keyword based searches on a relational database. As a paper that was published 10 years ago …
HadoopDB: Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment
The buzz about Hadapt and HadoopDB has been around for a while now as it is one of the first systems to …
Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets
One of the aspects you can’t miss even as you just begin reading this paper is the strong scent of functional programming …
Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing
Kafka, a system developed at LinkedIn, is essentially a messaging system that is designed to support aggregation of high throughput log messages …
Windows Azure Storage : A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency
Windows Azure Storage is a key component of the Windows Azure Cloud platform that offers an infinite disk in the cloud. It’s …
Thialfi: A Client Notification Service for Internet-Scale Applications
The Scandinavian mythology regards Thialfi, a swift runner, as the attendent of Thor, the god of war. Motivated by the swiftness that …
Spotify: Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming
This paper from folks at Spotify primarily focuses on how they use P2P techniques in their platform. The service is not web-based, …
Tenzing : A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework
This paper which appeared in this year’s VLDB talks about the internals of the SQL query engine atop Google’s Map Reduce framework. …
HipG: Parallel Processing of Large-Scale Graphs
Abstract Distributed processing of real-world graphs is challenging due to their size and the inherent irregular structure of graph computations. We present …