MapReduce makes it easy to write powerful programs over large data to be run on thousands of machines.

All the application programmer has to do is to write two small programs:

• Map: Input &rarr intermediate value

• Reduce: list of intermediate values &rarr answer

These two programs are small and easy to write!

MapReduce does all the hard stuff for us.

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