Google MapReduce Paper Published

Google publishes its seminal paper 'MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters,' detailing its internal framework for processing large datasets.

Significance

This paper laid the conceptual groundwork for distributed data processing, directly inspiring the creation of Apache Hadoop and subsequent big data frameworks that Dataproc would later manage.

Key facts

Date
2004-12-01
Type
invention
Location
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA