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Today it's MapReduce but wait a few years...

09/11/2020: Google has found that its BigTable database is very limited in terms of the types of queries it can perform and that the kind of data modeling it enforces leads to a number of nasty inconsistencies. Under lead engineer Matt Codd, Google researchers have been working on a secret project codenamed 'Join' in order to remedy this situation. At this year's I/O conference the search behemoth will present the successor to its dated BigTable system. The new database system is rumored to be named DB2.




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