Mapreduce for big data analysis: Benefits, limitations and extensions

Abstract

Big data becomes a hot topic. Map Reduce is a popular programming paradigm for big data analysis with many benefits. Even though it has widely applications in industry, Map Reduce still has limitations in some applications. For these limitations, some extensions have been proposed. In these brief communications, we discuss the benefits and limitations of Map Reduce programming paradigm and also its extensions to make Map Reduce go beyond the limitations.