Google Data Processing Delays Attributed to Big Table and MapReduce
Posted by Mark on July 10, 2012 in The Internet
Many have noted Google’s data processing issues they’ve been having as of late, affecting such services as AdSense, YouTube, and Analytics. What is causing these issues? Evidence suggests it’s BigTable (also known by its newer version’s name Colossus), Google’s distributed filesystem, and MapReduce, Google’s renown bulk-processing algorithm, causing these issues at the I/O level.




