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More Debate, Please!

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Moshe Y. Vardi

January 1, 2010

In this issue of Communications we have a debate that is quite a rarity in computing research: a technical debate. A pair of Contributed Articles debate the relative merits of MapReduce and relational database management systems. I have no doubt that our readers will find this technical debate highly instructive.

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