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same, I wrote a nosql in 2004 it used XML on the api because json wasn't even a thing back then and I didn't even realize it was innovative it just felt the rig

• hedora 6y ago
  I did the same and invented MapReduce a few years before the Google paper. I had a different fault tolerance model because the programs only needed a half dozen machines to run to completion, but the programing model was the same. It was so obviously the only way to handle datasets larger than RAM that I assumed it was common knowledge. I reinvented database query execution engines and an informal relational algebra on top of SQL a few years later. That thing was basically a JSON service API, except it used a home grown XML RPC layer (it was closer to modern approaches than the XML RPC standards being pushed at the time). Since then, I’ve developed an appreciation for good marketing people.