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1st October 2008 - Link Blog

Cascading. A Java API abstraction layer over Hadoop that lets developers think in terms of pipes and filters rather than map/reduce. The Cascading developers claim that this model is easier to understand and less error prone.

Posted 1st October 2008 at 1:22 pm

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