mapandreduce
nounUK /ˌmæp ən rɪˈdjuːs/
US /ˌmæp ən rɪˈduːs/
A way for computers to split a big job into small parts and then add up the answers.
The team used mapandreduce to count words in millions of books quickly.
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2. A programming style where one step changes each item and another step combines the results.
She wrote a mapandreduce job to total the sales by region.
3. A method for handling huge amounts of data across many machines at once.
Mapandreduce let the company analyze years of logs overnight.
4. A two-part computing pattern: map spreads work out, reduce brings answers together.
Learning mapandreduce helped him understand how search engines index pages.