Why MapReduce is Easy

There's something about MapReduce that makes it seem rather scary. It almost has this Big Data aura surrounding it, making it seem like it should only be used to analyze a large amount of data in a distributed fashion. It's one of the pieces that makes Riak a pretty versatile key-value store. Feed a bunch of keys into it, and do some analytics on the objects, quite handy. viaThe Basho Blog: Why MapReduce is Easy.