The rhetoric smells like yet another religious war. This is where I spit my morning beverage on the keyboard:
Given the experimental evaluations to date, we have serious doubts about how well MapReduce applications can scale.
Furthermore it seems like they ignore that MapReduce tries to solve a very different problem than an RDBMS. One, for which a traditional DBMS doesn't provide a good solution right now.
MapReduce: A major step backwards by David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker
via Artima.com
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There's a good decomposition of the argument on Good Math, Bad Math.
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