Introducing Students to MapReduce with Phoenix++

Last Updated: 2016-08-16

Welcome to the module for introducing students to MapReduce with Phoenix++! The first section, What is MapReduce? introduces students to the overall paradigm of MapReduce, discusses the history of Phoenix++ MapReduce, and how it differs from Hadoop and Google MapReduce. The next section, Counting Pease with MapReduce discusses how to use MapReduce to count words in a file, using a famous poem from Mother Goose. The third section, entitled Getting Started with Phoenix++, explores the Phoenix++ code base, discusses files required for custom implementations, and gives an overview of the word count example provided by the framework. Contents:

• What is MapReduce?
• Counting Pease With MapReduce
• Getting Started with Phoenix++