Further, while Hadoop is inherently a batch-oriented data processing system, Aster will return answers to queries immediately, Argyros says.

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MapReduce is becoming the lingua franca of data scientists, just as SQL has emerged as a standard for database queries, Argyros says.

FORBES: Can MapReduce Be Made Easy?

It quite literally reduces the amount of time analysts and programmers would otherwise have to spend building distributed analytical applications using extremely complicated alternatives, such as MPI, Argyros says.

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