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'''MapReduce''' was famously used by Google to process massive data sets in parallel on a distributed cluster in order to index the web for accurate and efficient search results. '''Apache Hadoop''', the open-source platform inspired by Google’s early proprietary technology has been one of the most popular big data processing frameworks. However, in recent years its usage has been declining in favor of other increasingly popular technologies, namely '''Apache Spark'''.