---
title: "Ask HN: Does (or why does) anyone use MapReduce anymore?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/ask-hn-does-or-why-does-anyone-use-mapreduce-anymore--utwubmdni
source_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113583
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-01-24T10:26:22.784Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:58:27.770Z
tags: ["spark", "apache-hadoop"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Ask HN: Does (or why does) anyone use MapReduce anymore?

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

MapReduce is still used in some database and analysis tools outside of the Hadoop ecosystem. Spark is seen as a more advanced alternative to MapReduce, but there may still be different implementations of MapReduce.

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