Patent Publication Number: US-7917463-B2

Title: System and method for data warehousing and analytics on a distributed file system

Description:
TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present invention relates to the field of data warehousing, and more specifically to querying data using ANSI Structured Query Language (SQL) expressions when the data resides in flat files over one or more local file systems connected by a network, by converting the SQL queries into a map-reduce program and executing the map-reduce program either directly on the local file system or on a distributed file system. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Businesses running enterprise systems maintain detailed log data that is written by the production systems into flat files. Example data include (i) web log data tracking user activity on a e-commerce or other website; (ii) telephone log data from large telecommunications providers; (iii) system monitoring log data in large IT operations where systems track and monitor events. For large enterprises, this data reaches terabyte and petabyte sizes and resides over multiple storage devices. The existing approaches for querying this data involves the process of data extraction, transform, and load (ETL) wherein the data is loaded into a relational database management system (RDBMS). This process is expensive, time consuming, and for large data sizes it requires a significant investment in managing and maintaining a cluster of RDBMS to enable efficient querying of the data. The hardware and personnel investment cost alone is prohibitive for all but the largest of enterprises when the data sizes reach terabytes. Yet even small internet sites and e-commerce sites can generate terabytes of data. The prohibitive cost of creating and maintaining the appropriate size cluster of RDBMSs makes access to the information and knowledge stored in much of that data inaccessible to those businesses. For larger enterprises, procurement and maintenance cost may be less of an issue, but the opportunity cost from delays in accessing the data can be material especially when new data sources need to be accessed. The typical time span required to go from flat files to ETL and to a performance ready cluster of RDBMS is measured in months. 
     Current efforts at making tera- and petabyte business data accessible have focused either on improving the performance of the cluster of RDBMS systems when processing the data or at using a map-reduce programming framework [ 3 ,  5 ] for extracting ad-hoc information from the data. 
     The first approach is RDBMS centric and involves horizontal partitioning of tables across multiple nodes in the cluster and customizing the query processing component of the RDBMS to enable parallel execution of SQL expressions. 
     The second approach involves using a map-reduce programming framework to extract ad-hoc information from flat files. These approaches range from Google&#39;s Sawzall [ 8 ] which requires the user to write a map-reduce program specific to the task to Yahoo&#39;s PIG [ 7 ] and Facebook&#39;s HIVE [ 1 ] where the user interacts through a query or programming abstraction interface where the queries/programs articulate data analysis tasks in terms of higher-level transformations. HIVE provides some data warehousing functionality. 
     Recently, two vendors in the RDBMS space, Aster [ 2 ] and Greenplum [ 6 ] have bundled map-reduce programming functionality into their products allowing a user to write a map-reduce program in a variety of popular scripting languages (such as Python or Perl) and run the program through their RDBMS client interface. 
     PIG and HIVE create a high-level programming language that allows the user to program their requirements versus a declarative language where the user expresses what they need. PIG is not designed as a database system and therefore does not support key features such as (i) separation of the schema describing the data from the application that uses the data; (ii) indexing of the data to optimize performance; or (iii) views so that the application programs do not need to be rewritten when the schema changes. 
     HIVE requires processing of the data in the local file systems with the objective of storing the data in a unique format necessary for HIVE to operate on the data [ 1 ,  9 ]. This step is reminiscent of the costly and time consuming ETL step of RDBMS systems. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The map-reduce approaches such as PIG and Sawzall differ from the current invention in several key respects. The most obvious point of differentiation is that the primary objective of those systems is to create a programming language on top of map-reduce. 
     HIVE provides some data warehousing functionality, but in contrast to HIVE, (i) the present invention creates a database system directly on the flat files and converts input ANSI SQL expressions into map-reduce programs for processing the expression on those flat files; (ii) the present invention allows data-centric applications that access data through ANSI SQL expressions to continue to operate correctly even as data layouts and database hardware evolves. Existing application programs, such as reporting applications, business intelligence tools, OLAP systems, and data mining applications can use this invention as their database system without the user having to rewrite the application program; (iii) the present invention does not require the user or application to pre-process the data residing on the local file system as a pre-condition for analysis. 
     The  BCAT  aggregate operator is unique to the present invention and it is not supported by RDBMS systems, HIVE, or PIG, and nor can it be derived directly from ANSI SQL expressions. In analyzing website traffic, for example, a user is often interested in aggregating user sessions on the website by the nodes (pages) they visited during the session. In a traditional RDBMS representation, the session ID and node ID need to be columns and hence the user&#39;s path through the website is stored in multiple records. This representation is termed a “denormalized” representation and is necessary because the data warehouse designer does not know a priori how many nodes the user may visit in a single session. The business analyst is interested in grouping the sessions by the user&#39;s path, that is, by the nodes visited and in the order they were visited. Based on those groupings the analyst will compute financial and user metrics of interest. There is no easy way to create those groupings using ANSI SQL and/or existing RDBMS systems. The approach would entail determining the longest user path, say M, and creating a normalized representation of the data which included M node columns to transform what is a row-oriented computation into a column-oriented computation that ANSI SQL can support. The above transformation of the data would be prohibitive for even moderately large data sets. Furthermore, the length of the longest path may continue to increase with new data, requiring in the worst case, the business analyst or data warehouse administrator to re-transform the data multiple times. The same problem cannot be solved by a column-oriented database, the latter which would also entail the same transformation of the data. 
     More generally, the  BCAT  aggregate operator emphasizes a key aspect of the present invention that enables the analyst to create new dimensions from the data on-the-fly using row values. The RDBMS solution is to create a normalized representation of the data that contain the dimensions of interest. Creating such a representation requires creating a schema and the ETL process and programs to load the denormalized data into the new schema. That process is expensive and time consuming, and introduces significant performance bottlenecks that make it intractable for large data sets. That is one of the problems solved by the present invention. Log data produced by production systems is universally denormalized, and because the objective of this invention is to enable analysts and applications to process ANSI SQL queries directly on those data files without going through the complex and time consuming process of defining the schemas and writing ETL, the  BCAT  command enables the end-user, the business analyst, to create any number of on-the-fly dimensional views of the data by scripting ANSI SQL expressions. 
     By way of illustration, we describe a SQL expression that contains the BCAT aggregate operator for use in analyzing financial performance data on a website property. Let session ID  denote the unique id for a session, node ID  denote the unique page id, time ID  denote the time at which the user visited a particular page, and revenue the revenue generated by that user on that page. The following ANSI SQL query together with  BCAT , aggregates sessions and total revenue for sessions that have the same navigation path on the website: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 SELECT path, COUNT(path), SUM(pathRevenue) FROM 
               
               
                 (SELECT sessionID, BCAT (nodeID) AS path, SUM(revenue) AS 
               
               
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                 FROM (SELECT sessionID, nodeID FROM &lt;weblog table&gt; ORDER BY 
               
               
                 timeID) 
               
               
                 GROUP BY sessionID) 
               
               
                 GROUP BY path 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The use of the  BCAT  aggregate operator on node ID  creates a new dimension path that is the concatenation of the node IDs in the order they were visited by the user. The outer select aggregates over the new path dimension. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  illustrates an exemplary computing and data communications environment configured in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 2  illustrates an exemplary process of the data manipulations from input ANSI SQL query and flat files to the output result set in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 3  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query into a map-reduce program, running said program on a distributed file system and storing the output in the same file system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 4  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting a select-where ANSI SQL query into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 5(   a ) is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query containing a  GROUP BY  command into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 5(   b ) is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query containing a  GROUP BY  and  HAVING  command into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 6(   a ) is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query that performs an inner equi-join into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 6(   b )-( d ) each are portions of a flowchart of variations of the process of  FIG. 6(   a ) with  FIG. 6(   b ) illustrating an exemplary process for the map-reduce reducer program of an ANSI SQL query that performs a left-outer equi-join, with  FIG. 6(   c ) illustrating an exemplary process for the map-reduce reducer program of an ANSI SQL query that performs a right-outer equi-join, and with  FIG. 6(   d ) illustrating an exemplary process for the map-reduce reducer program of an ANSI SQL query that performs a full-outer equi-join, all three in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 7  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query containing an  ORDER BY  command into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 8  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting the  BCAT  aggregation operator into a map-reduce program comprising two mapper programs and two reducer programs in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     The following detailed description of the invention contains many specifics for the purpose of illustration. Anyone of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that many variations and alterations to the following details are within scope of the invention. Accordingly, the following embodiments of the invention are set forth without any loss of generality to, and without imposing limitations upon, the claimed invention. 
       FIG. 1  illustrates an embodiment of the computing and data communications environment configured in accordance with the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Each client computer system  105   1  . . .  105   N  includes a network interface that enables communication with the application server  107  over network  106 . The network may be a local-area network where both the client system  105  and the server system  100  reside at the same general location, or there may be network connections between geographically distributed systems, including network connections over the internet. Client system  105  includes a central-processing unit (CPU), one or more memory units, a storage device with various applications residing there on, an input mechanism, an output mechanism, coupled by a bus and an operating system configured to manage the interaction between the computer hardware and software applications running on the client system  105 . 
     The server system  100  may include hardware components and an operating system similar to the client component. Accordingly, the server system generally includes one or more CPUs, one or more memory units, one or more storage devices with various applications residing there on, an input mechanism, an output mechanism coupled by a bus, and an operating system. 
     The client-server configuration shown in  FIG. 1  is exemplary of one configuration and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Embodiments of the present invention may be implemented using other configurations including clusters of servers connected by a network, configurations where the server system is deployed in a grid computing architecture or a cloud computing architecture, configurations that include network storage appliances, and configurations where both the client and servers reside in a single computer system. 
     In one embodiment of the present invention, users interact with the server system  100  using a graphical user interface (GUI) for SQL query building such as may be provided by an RDBMS client running on the client system  105 . In such an embodiment, the client application may be configured to allow the user to compose a SQL query and submit the query to the runtime component  103 . In another embodiment, the client system may transmit the SQL query to the runtime component using a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). In such an embodiment, HTTP server  104  (e.g., open source Apache web-server program or Microsoft&#39;s Internet Information Server) processes the SOAP query request from the client and transmits the query to the runtime component. 
     Upon receiving the SQL query from the client, the runtime component  103  generates one or more map-reduce mapper programs and one or more map-reduce reducer programs from the input SQL query and transmits these programs to the MapReduce servers  107  for execution. The MapReduce servers include mapper slave servers and reducer slave servers. The run-time component assigns the mapper programs to the mapper slaves and the reducer programs to the reducer slaves. The data input for the mapper programs on each mapper slave may be in local file systems  101  accessible through the network  106  or on a distributed file system  109 . In one embodiment of the present invention, when the data resides on local file systems  101 , the data is copied to distributed file system  109  to improve execution throughput. In another embodiment of the present invention, the storage device of each mapper slave server is used for the underlying physical storage of the distributed file system  109 . 
     The runtime component may be configured to write query results to the to local file systems  101 , to the distributed file system  109 , or to the database of an RDBMS server  111 . The client can access the query results in the local file system  101  or distributed file system  109  directly through the network, and access the query results published to a database table in the RDBMS server  111  through an RDBMS client after establishing a network connection to the RDBMS server  111 . 
       FIG. 2  illustrates an exemplary process of the data manipulations from input ANSI SQL query and flat files to the output result set in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Referring to  FIG. 2 , a user or a software application program  202  (e.g., OLAP reporting applications or data mining applications) inputs an ANSI SQL expression where a user employs a command line interface or the SQL graphical-user interface provided by a 3rd party RDBMS client  201  (e.g., Microsoft SQL Client). The ANSI SQL expression is transmitted to the SQL-MapReduce database system  210  using the driver  200  that supports the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) protocols. The connection driver  200  must be loaded into the application server running application  202  or into RDBMS client  201 . 
     Upon receiving the ANSI SQL expression, the SQL-MapReduce database system runs a query parser  211  on the query and then runs an XML generator  212  that generates an XML representation of the parsed command and its arguments that may include meta data information about the data and tables. The XML representation is submitted to the MapReduce program generator  213  that uses that input to implement one or more mapper programs and one or more reducer programs. The SQL-MapReduce database system  210  then sends the mapper programs and reducer programs generated by the MapReduce program generator  213  to the runtime component  230 . 
     Runtime component  230  assigns the mapper programs to mapper-slave server cluster  240  and assigns the reducer program to reducer-slave server cluster  260 . Mapper slave servers  241   1−N  each receive a copy of the mapper programs which they store in their local storage device. Reducer-slave servers  261   1−M  each receive a copy of the reducer programs which they store in their local storage device. 
     Flat files are assumed to reside on the local file systems  220  of one or more servers or on storage devices. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an application or user can request the data residing in those files to be copied to a distributed file system (DFS) that uses the underlying physical storage of the mapper slave cluster  240 . 
     To copy the local file data  220  to the DFS on the mapper-slave cluster  240 , the application  202  or the user through the query interface  201  enters the  CREATE TABLE  command with the following syntax into the query interface  201 : 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 CREATE TABLE &lt;table name&gt; (&lt;column name&gt;&lt;data type&gt;[,  &lt;column 
               
               
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                 COLUMN  SEP  &lt;string&gt;[DFS  PATH &lt;DFS  path&gt;][IMPORT 
               
               
                 DATA  FROM  &lt;local path&gt;][COMMENT &lt;string&gt;] 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
         
         
           
             where in this syntax, expressions enclosed by &lt; &gt;are inputs and expressions enclosed by [ ] are optional. In the above operator, (i) the column name and data types defines the table schema; (ii) the string value of the  COLUMN SEP  defines the string used to delimit the fields in the data files; (iii) the DFS PATH clause instructs the system to copy the data into that directory in the DFS or to create a new one when that clause is not specified; (iv) the  IMPORT DATA FROM  clause instructs the system to copy files from the specified location in the local file system; and (v) the  COMMENT  clause is used to associate a comment with the table at creation. 
           
         
       
    
     The  CREATE TABLE  command is transmitted to the SQL-MapReduce database system  210  using driver  200 . Upon receiving the ANSI SQL expression, the SQL-MapReduce database system runs a query parser  211  on the  CREATE TABLE  command and then runs an XML generator  212  that generates an XML representation of the parsed command and its arguments. The XML representation is submitted to the runtime component  230  that executes the transfer copy of data from local file systems  220  to the mapper-slave server cluster  240 . 
     Upon receiving their assigned copy of the mapper programs, each mapper-slave server executes the first mapper program on the flat files. In one embodiment of the present invention the files are accessible through a DFS and resides locally on the mapper slave server. The outputs of the mapper programs running on mapper slaves  241   1−N  are written locally to flat files  250   1−N  on the mapper-slaves&#39; storage device. Reducer-slave servers  260   1−M  make remote reads of the flat files  250   1−N  and execute their first reducer programs on these files. The output from reducer-slaves  260   1−M  is written locally to flat files  270   1−M  on the reducer-slaves&#39; local storage devices. Additional mapper and reducer programs are run similarly. The final result set  270  is a flat file that may be copied to a local file system  290  or into an RDBMS database  280 . 
     To use RDBMS  280  to store the result set, the application  202  or the user through the query interface  201  creates a database link to the RDBMS server using the following command: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 CREATE DATABASE LINK &lt;link name&gt; 
               
               
                 CONNECTION URL &lt;connection url for rdbms&gt; 
               
               
                 DRIVER &lt;rdbms driver class name&gt; [ USER &lt;username&gt; PASSWORD 
               
               
                 &lt;password&gt; ][ property val, ... ] 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The  CREATE DATABASE LINK  command is transmitted to the SQL-MapReducer database system using the loaded driver  200 , parsed by query parser  210 , converted into XML by XML generator  212 , and transmitted to the runtime component for execution.
         For example, to make a link to the SQL server database provided by Microsoft, the user runs the following command:       

     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 CREATE DATABASE LINK sqlserverlink CONNECTION URL 
               
               
                   
                  ‘jdbc:sqlserver://yourhost:8888;user=user;password=password; 
               
               
                   
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     Once the user has created the database link, the application  202  or the user through the query interface  201  can issue the following command to instruct the system to insert the result set into an existing table in the RDBMS server: 
     INSERT INTO &lt;table name&gt;@&lt;link name&gt;
         For example, if the user created the preceding SQL database link, sqlserverlink, then the following command       

     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 INSERT INTO mytable@sqlserverlink SELECT FirstName, LastName 
               
               
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             would insert result set  270  corresponding to the following query 
             SELECT FirstName, LastName FROM nametable 
             into the RDBMS table  mytable  in RDBMS  280 . 
           
         
       
    
     The result set in the local file systems  290  or RDBMS  280  is accessible to application  202  and to the user through either the command line interface or query interface  201 . 
       FIG. 3  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query into a map-reduce program, running said program on a distributed file system and storing the output in the same file system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. 
     ANSI SQL expression  301  can be expressed in the following recursive grammar: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 SELECT [ DISTINCT ][ TOP n]&lt;select list&gt; [INTO &lt;into element&gt;] 
               
               
                   
                 FROM &lt;element&gt; [ AS &lt;alias&gt; ](, &lt;element&gt; [ AS &lt;alias&gt; ] )* 
               
               
                   
                 [ WHERE &lt;condition&gt; ] [ GROUP BY &lt;group 
               
               
                   
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             where (i) &lt;select list&gt; is a comma-separated list of column names selected from the &lt;element&gt; inputs in the SQL expression or is a mathematical expression with column name inputs; (ii) &lt;element&gt; is either a table name &lt;table&gt; or an ANSI SQL subquery enclosed in parenthesis ( ); (iii) &lt;into element&gt; is a table name; (iv) &lt;group by list&gt; is a comma-separated list of column names selected from the &lt;element&gt; inputs in the SQL expression; (v) &lt;order by list&gt; is a comma-separated list of column names selected from the &lt;element&gt; inputs; (vi) &lt;condition&gt; is a boolean expression. 
           
         
       
    
     In one embodiment of the present invention, ANSI SQL expression  301  is converted to one or map-reduce mapper programs and one or more map-reduce reducer programs  303 . The mapper programs and the reducer programs are executed on data residing in a distributed file system  305  and the result set is written back to the same distributed file system  307 . 
     In another embodiment of the present invention, the mapper programs and the reducer programs are executed on data residing in local file systems. 
     In another embodiment of the present invention, the result set is written back to local file systems or to the database of an RDBMS server. 
     The following description of one embodiment of the present invention describes flow charts that convert an ANSI SQL expression into a map-reduce program for the case when &lt;element&gt; is a table. For the case when &lt;element&gt; is an ANSI SQL subquery, one skilled in the art will appreciate that the subquery is first implemented as a map-reduce program in accordance to the method described for &lt;table&gt;, and the results of that map-reduce program are stored in a table created in the distributed file system using the  CREATE TABLE  command that gives the newly created table a reference name. 
     In one embodiment of the invention, the methods that are used by the system to convert an ANSI SQL query into a map-reduce program are described in the following description. Anyone of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that many variations and alterations to the following details are within scope of the invention. 
       FIG. 4  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting a select-where ANSI SQL query into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Although this figure depicts functional steps in a particular order and depicts a select-where ANSI SQL expression of a particular type, both for purposes of illustration, the process is not limited to this particular order or arrangement of steps, and nor is it limited to the specific form of the ANSI SQL expression. One skilled in the art will appreciate that the various steps portrayed in this figure could be rearranged, combined and/or adapted in various ways, and the ANSI SQL expression in this figure could be rewritten in various ways that are adherent to the ANSI standard. 
     Referring to  FIG. 4 , a 1 , . . . , a k  denote one or more column names in a table &lt;table&gt; and &lt;condition&gt; denotes a predicate expression composed of column names and SQL operators. When a select-where ANSI SQL query arrives as input ( 401 ), the column names, the table name and the predicate expression are parsed ( 403 ). In parsing the predicate expression, the column names contained in that expression are parsed, the operators contained in that expression are parsed, and the expression is stored in postfix notation. 
     The column indices i 1 , . . . , ik corresponding to the columns a 1 , . . . , a k  and the indices of any additional columns parsed from the predicate expression in step  403  are identified ( 405 ) using the schema corresponding to &lt;table&gt; created by the  CREATE TABLE  command when &lt;table&gt; was created. In step  407 , the map-reduce mapper program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: if the predicate expression &lt;condition&gt; evaluates to 1 then (i) set the mapper key to 1; (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in column indices i 1 , . . . , ik. 
     In step  409 , the map-reduce reducer program is implemented by setting the output of the reducer to the list of values returned by the mappers. 
     Observe that there is only a single key with value 1 in the map-reduce program that converts the select-where ANSI SQL expression in  FIG. 4 . In another embodiment of the present invention, the map-reduce mapper program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: (i) set the mapper key to the evaluation of the predicate expression &lt;condition&gt;; and (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in column indices i 1 , . . . , ik In the same embodiment, the reducer program outputs the list of values returned by the mappers only when the key equals 1. 
     If the  WHERE  command and &lt;condition&gt; expression are not included in the SQL expression of  FIG. 4  then the select-where expression becomes a simple select expression. The map-reduce mapper in step  407 , is now implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: (i) set the mapper key to 1; and (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in column indices i 1 , . . . , ik. 
     If the columns in the SQL expression reference multiple tables, then one skilled in the art will appreciate that &lt;table&gt; refers to multiple table names each with its own schema that is used in step  405 . 
       FIG. 5(   a ) is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query containing a  GROUP BY  command into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Although this figure depicts functional steps in a particular order and depicts an ANSI SQL expression containing the  GROUP BY  command of a particular type, both for purposes of illustration, the process is not limited to this particular order or arrangement of steps, and nor is it limited to the particular type of ANSI SQL expression. One skilled in the art will appreciate that the various steps portrayed in this figure could be rearranged, combined and/or adapted in various ways, and the ANSI SQL expression in this figure could be rewritten in various ways that are adherent to the ANSI standard. 
     Referring to  FIG. 5(   a ), (i) a 1 , . . . , a k  denote one or more column names in a table &lt;table&gt; on which the  GROUP BY  command operates; (ii) b 1 , . . . , b j  denote one or more column names in the table &lt;table&gt; on which the aggregate functions f 1 , . . . , f j  operate; and (iii) and &lt;condition&gt; denotes a predicate expression composed of column names and SQL operators. The aggregate functions f 1 , . . . , f j  are commutative and associative functions such as  COUNT, SUM, PROD, MAX, MIN . Other functions such as  AVG  are computed by using  SUM  and  COUNT . 
     When an ANSI SQL query arrives that contains a  GROUP BY  command as input ( 501 ), the column names corresponding to the  GROUP BY  command, the column names corresponding to the aggregate functions, the table name, and the predicate expression (if present as it is in this illustration) are parsed ( 503 ). In parsing the predicate expression, the column names contained in that expression are parsed, the operators contained in that expression are parsed, and the expression is stored in postfix notation. 
     The column indices i 1 , . . . , ik corresponding to the  GROUP BY  columns a 1 , . . . , a k , the column indices e 1 , . . . , ej corresponding to the aggregation columns b 1 , . . . , b j  and the indices of any additional columns parsed from the predicate expression in step  503  are identified ( 505 ) using the schema corresponding to &lt;table&gt; created by the  CREATE TABLE  command when &lt;table&gt; was created. In step  507 , the map-reduce mapper program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: if the predicate expression &lt;condition&gt; evaluates to 1 then (i) set the mapper key to the list of column values stored in the  GROUP BY  columns indexed i 1 , . . . , ik;; and (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in aggregation column indices e 1 , . . . , ej. 
     In step  509 , the map-reduce reducer program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: for each key returned by the mapper program (i) initialize the values of the aggregate functions f 1 , . . . , f j  to x 1 , . . . , x j  where said initialization depends on the type of function as follows: for  COUNT  initialize to zero; for  SUM  initialize to zero; for  PROD  initialize to 1; for  MAX  initialize to the minimum machine integer or float in the system (depending on the column data type); for  MIN  initialize to the maximum machine integer or float in the system; (ii) for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, get that value (ve 1 , . . . , ve j ) corresponding to the column values in index positions e 1 , . . . , ej, and set the new values of the aggregate functions to x 1 =f 1 (x 1 , v e1 ), . . . , x j =f 1 (x j , v ej ); and (iii) after iterating over the entire list of values in (ii), output the current key together with the last computed values for x 1 , . . . , x j    
       FIG. 5(   b ) is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query containing a  GROUP BY  command and a  HAVING  command into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Although this figure depicts functional steps in a particular order and depicts an ANSI SQL expression containing the  GROUP BY  and  HAVING  commands of a particular type, both for purposes of illustration, the process is not limited to this particular order or arrangement of steps, and nor is it limited to the particular type of ANSI SQL expression. One skilled in the art will appreciate that the various steps portrayed in this figure could be rearranged, combined and/or adapted in various ways, and the ANSI SQL expression in this figure could be rewritten in various ways that are adherent to the ANSI standard. 
     Referring to  FIG. 5(   b ), (i) a 1 , . . . , a k  denote one or more column names in a table &lt;table&gt; on which the  GROUP BY  command operates; (ii) b 1 , . . . , b k  denote one or more column names in the table &lt;table&gt; on which the aggregate functions f 1 , . . . , f j  operate; (iii) and &lt;condition a &gt; denotes a predicate expression composed of column names and SQL operators; and (iv) &lt;condition b &gt; denotes the predicate for the  HAVING  command. 
     When an ANSI SQL query arrives that contains  GROUP BY  and  HAVING  commands as input ( 511 ), the column names corresponding to the  GROUP BY  command, the column names corresponding to the aggregate functions, the table name, the predicate expression (if present as it is in this illustration), and the  HAVING  predicate are parsed ( 513 ). In parsing the predicate expression, the column names contained in that expression are parsed, the operators contained in that expression are parsed, and the expression is stored in postfix notation. 
     In step  519 , the map-reduce reducer program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: for each key returned by the mapper program (i) initialize the values of the aggregate functions f 1 , . . . , f j  to x 1 , . . . , x j  where said initialization depends on the type of function as follows: for  COUNT  initialize to zero; for  SUM  initialize to zero; for  PROD  initialize to 1; for  MAX  initialize to the minimum machine integer in the system; for  MIN  initialize to the maximum machine integer in the system; (ii) for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, get that value (v e1 , . . . , v ej ) corresponding to the column values in index positions e 1 , . . . , ej and set the new values of the aggregate functions to x 1 =f 1 (x 1 , v e1 ), . . . , x j =f 1 (x j ,i j ); and (iii) after iterating over the entire list of values in (ii), if the  HAVING  predicate &lt;condition b &gt; evaluates to TRUE then output the current key together with the last computed values for x 1 , . . . , x j . 
     If the  WHERE  command and &lt;condition&gt; expression is not included in the SQL expression of  FIG. 5(   a ) or  FIG. 5(   b ), then one skilled in the art will appreciate that the map-reduce mapper in step  507  is now implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: (i) set the mapper key to the list of column values stored in the  GROUP BY  columns indexed i 1 , . . . , ik; and (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in aggregation column indices e 1 , . . . , ej. 
     If no aggregate functions are included in the SQL expression of  FIG. 5(   a ), then the map-reduce mapper in step  507  is now implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: (i) set the mapper key to the list of column values stored in the  GROUP BY  columns indexed i 1 , . . . , ik;; and (ii) set the mapper value to 1. Furthermore, the map-reduce reducer in step  509  of  FIG. 5(   a ) is now implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: for each key returned by the mapper program, output the key. 
     If the columns in the SQL expression reference multiple tables, then one skilled in the art will appreciate that &lt;table&gt; refers to multiple table names each with its own schema that is used in step  505 . 
     The process in  FIG. 5(   a ) for converting an ANSI SQL query containing a  GROUP BY  command into a map-reduce program can be used to convert an ANSI SQL query containing a  DISTINCT  command. One skilled in the art will appreciate that an ANSI SQL expression containing a  DISTINCT  command can be reduced to an expression that uses a  GROUP BY  command. For example,
           SELECT DISTINCT  a i , . . . , ak FROM &lt;table&gt;   is equivalent to the following SQL expression     SELECT  a 1 , . . . , a k    FROM  &lt;table&gt;  GROUP BY  a 1 , . . . , a k          

       FIG. 6  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query that performs an inner equi-join into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Although this figure depicts functional steps in a particular order and depicts an inner equi-join ANSI SQL expression of a particular type, both for purposes of illustration, the process is not limited to this particular order or arrangement of steps, and nor is it limited to the specific form of the ANSI SQL expression. One skilled in the art will appreciate that the various steps portrayed in this figure could be rearranged, combined and/or adapted in various ways, and the ANSI SQL expression in this figure could be rewritten in various ways that are adherent to the ANSI standard. 
     Referring to  FIG. 6(   a ), A.a 1 , . . . , A. ak  denote one or more column names in a table &lt;table a &gt;, B.b 1 , . . . , B. bj  denote one or more column names in a table &lt;table b &gt;, &lt;condition a &gt; denotes a predicate expression composed of column names from &lt;table a &gt;, &lt;condition b &gt; denotes a predicate expression composed of column names from &lt;table b &gt;, and &lt;condition ab &gt; denotes an equi-join predicate expression composed of column names from &lt;table a &gt; and &lt;table b &gt;. When an equi-join ANSI SQL query arrives as input ( 601 ), the column names, the table names, and the predicate expressions are parsed ( 603 ). In parsing the predicate expressions, the column names contained in that expression are parsed, the operators contained in that expression are parsed, and the expression is stored in postfix notation. Of special interest for this flow chart is the parsing of the column names A.c 1 , . . . , A.c p  in &lt;table a &gt; and B.c 1 , . . . , B.c p  in &lt;table b &gt; that are in the equi-join expression &lt;condition ab &gt; ( 605 ). 
     The column indices i 1 , . . . , ik corresponding to the columns A.a 1 , . . . , A.ak, the column indices e 1 , . . . , ej corresponding to the columns B.b 1 , . . . , B.bj, the column indices g 1 , . . . , gp corresponding to the columns A.c 1 , . . . , A.cp, the column indices h 1 , . . . , hp corresponding to the columns B.c 1 , . . . , B.cp, and the indices of any additional columns parsed from the predicate expressions &lt;condition a ,&gt; and &lt;condition b &gt; in step  603  are identified ( 607 ) using the schemas corresponding to tables &lt;table a ,&gt; and &lt;table b &gt; created by the  CREATE TABLE  command. 
     In step  609 , the map-reduce mapper program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: if in processing &lt;table a ,&gt; the predicate expression &lt;condition a ,&gt; evaluates to 1 then (i) set the mapper key to the list of table A column values at indices g 1 , . . . , gp; (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in column indices i 1 , . . . , ik and pre-pend the table alias A; else if in processing &lt;table b &gt; the predicate expression &lt;condition b &gt; evaluates to 1 then (i) set the mapper key to the list of table B column values at indices h 1 , . . . , hp; (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in column indices e 1 , . . . , ej and pre-pend the table alias B. 
     In step  611 , the map-reduce reducer program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: for each key returned by the mapper program (i) initialize lists list a  and list b  to empty; (ii) for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, read the first token and if it matches A then add the remaining elements in the value to list a , else add them to list b ; (iii) after iterating over the entire list of values in (ii), if both list a , and list b  are not empty then output the cross-product of these two lists. 
     One skilled in the art will appreciate that neither &lt;conditlon a ,&gt; nor &lt;condition b &gt; are necessary in the input expression in step  601  to define an equi-join. If either of both of these are missing, the map-reduce mapper in step  609  is implemented accordingly. For example, if &lt;condition a &gt; is absent, the map-reduce mapper is now implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: in processing &lt;table a ,&gt; (i) set the mapper key to the list of table A column values at indices g 1 , . . . , gp; (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in column indices i 1 , . . . , ik and pre-pend the table alias A; else if in processing &lt;table b &gt; the predicate expression &lt;condition b &gt; evaluates to 1 then (i) set the mapper key to the list of table B column values at indices h 1 , . . . , hp; (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in column indices e 1 , . . . , ej and pre-pend the table alias B. 
     The process illustrated in  FIG. 6(   a ) enables the input SQL expression to represent a self-join by using table aliases in the expression. Replacing a nested query by a self-join query has better execution performance because it only needs to run a single MapReduce job rather than separate jobs for each nested query. 
     A SQL expression for a left outer equi-join over two tables is implemented as illustrated in  FIG. 6(   a ) with the map-reduce reducer program in step  611  implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps illustrated in  FIG. 6(   b ) step  613 : for each key returned by the mapper program (i) initialize lists list a , and list b  to empty; (ii) for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, read the first token and if it matches A then add the remaining elements in the value to list a , else add them to list b ; (iii) after iterating over the entire list of values in (ii), if list a , is non-empty then output the cross-product of these two lists. 
     A SQL expression for a right outer equi-join over two tables is implemented as illustrated in  FIG. 6(   a ) with the map-reduce reducer program in step  611  implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps illustrated in  FIG. 6(   c ) step  615 : for each key returned by the mapper program (i) initialize lists list a , and list b  to empty; (ii) for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, read the first token and if it matches A then add the remaining elements in the value to list a , else add them to list b ; (iii) after iterating over the entire list of values in (ii), if list b  is non-empty then output the cross-product of these two lists. 
     A SQL expression for a full outer equi-join over two tables is implemented as illustrated in  FIG. 6(   a ) with the map-reduce reducer program in step  611  implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps illustrated in  FIG. 6(   d ) step  617 : for each key returned by the mapper program (i) initialize lists list a  and list b  to empty; (ii) for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, read the first token and if it matches A then add the remaining elements in the value to list a , else add them to list b ; (iii) after iterating over the entire list of values in (ii) output the cross-product of these two lists. 
     One skilled in the art will appreciate that a SQL expression for equi-joins (inner or any of the outer) over three or more tables can be reduced to a nested SQL expression where each nested expression is an (inner, left-outer, right-outer, or full-outer) equi-join over two tables and can be implemented by one of the processes illustrated in  FIGS. 6(   a )-( d ). 
     The equi-join SQL expression in step  601  is in the “implicit join notation”. One skilled in the art will appreciate that an equi-join expression in the “explicit join notation” that uses one of the following ANSI SQL command  JOIN  &lt;table&gt;  ON, INNER JOIN  &lt;table&gt;  ON, LEFT JOIN  &lt;table&gt;  ON, RIGHT JOIN  &lt;table&gt;  ON, FULL JOIN  &lt;table&gt;  ON  to express an inner join, left-outer join, right-outer join, or full join can be implemented by one of the processes illustrated in  FIG. 6(   a )-( d ). 
       FIG. 7  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting an ANSI SQL query containing an  ORDER BY  command into a map-reduce program comprising one mapper program and one reducer program in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Although this figure depicts functional steps in a particular order and depicts an ANSI SQL expression containing the  ORDER BY  command of a particular type, both for purposes of illustration, the process is not limited to this particular order or arrangement of steps, and nor is it limited to the particular type of ANSI SQL expression. One skilled in the art will appreciate that the various steps portrayed in this figure could be rearranged, combined and/or adapted in various ways, and the ANSI SQL expression in this figure could be rewritten in various ways that are adherent to the ANSI standard. 
     Referring to  FIG. 7 , (i) a i , . . . , a k  denote one or more column names in a table &lt;table&gt; on which the  SELECT  command operates; and (ii) b i , . . . , b j  denote one or more column names in the table &lt;table&gt; on which the  ORDER BY  command operates. 
     When an ANSI SQL query arrives that contains a  ORDER BY  command as input ( 701 ), the column names corresponding to the  SELECT  command and the column names corresponding to the  ORDER BY  command are parsed ( 703 ). 
     The column indices i 1 , . . . , ik corresponding to the columns a i , . . . , a k  and the column indices e 1 , . . . , ej corresponding to the  ORDER BY  command parsed in step  603  are identified ( 705 ) using the schema corresponding to &lt;table&gt; created by the  CREATE TABLE  command when &lt;table&gt; was created. In step  707 , the map-reduce mapper program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: (i) set the mapper key to the list of column values stored in the  ORDER BY  columns indexed i 1 , . . . , ik; (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in the column indices e 1 , . . . , ej. 
     In step  709 , the map-reduce reducer program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: for each key returned by the mapper program and for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, output the value. 
       FIG. 8  is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary process for converting the  BCAT  aggregate operator into a map-reduce program comprising two mapper programs and two reducer programs in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit scope as one of ordinary skill would understand on review of this application that other configurations could be utilized without departing from the claimed invention. Although this figure depicts functional steps in a particular order and depicts an ANSI SQL expression containing the  BCAT  operator of a particular type, both for purposes of illustration, the process is not limited to this particular order or arrangement of steps, and nor is it limited to the particular type of ANSI SQL expression. One skilled in the art will appreciate that the various steps portrayed in this figure could be rearranged, combined and/or adapted in various ways, and the ANSI SQL expression in this figure could be rewritten in various ways that are adherent to the ANSI standard. 
     Referring to  FIG. 8 , (i) a i , . . . , ak denote one or more column names in a table &lt;table&gt; on which the  BCAT  command operates; (ii) b i  denote a column name in the table &lt;table&gt; on which the aggregate function  BCAT  operates. 
     When an ANSI SQL query arrives that contains a  BCAT  command as input ( 801 ), the column names corresponding to the  GROUP BY  command, the column name corresponding to the  BCAT  aggregate function, and the table name are parsed ( 803 ). 
     The column indices i 1 , . . . , ik corresponding to the  GROUP BY  columns a 1 , . . . , a k  and the column index e 1  corresponding to the aggregation column b 1  are identified ( 805 ) using the schema corresponding to &lt;table&gt; created by the  CREATE TABLE  command when &lt;table&gt; was created. In step  807 , the map-reduce mapper program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: (i) set the mapper key to the list of column values stored in the  GROUP BY  columns indexed i 1 , . . . , ik, (ii) set the mapper value to the list of column values stored in aggregation column indices e 1 . 
     In step  809 , the map-reduce reducer program is implemented in accordance to the following sequence of steps: for each key returned by the mapper program (i) initialize the value x of the aggregate function  BCAT  to the empty set; (ii) for each value in the list of values returned by the mapper, get that value v e1 , corresponding to the column value in index position e 1  and append (or concatenate) it to x; (iii) after iterating over the entire list of values in (ii), output x and the current key. 
     One skilled in the art will appreciate that the a SQL expression that contains two or more aggregate functions, with one or more such functions of the type  BCAT  is within the scope of the invention. The particular embodiment of the invention illustrated by  FIG. 8  is set forth without any loss of generality to, and without imposing limitations upon, the claimed invention. 
     Example: Please note the following example, which is intended to illustrate one mode of operation of the present invention but is in no way intended to limit the scope of the present invention. 
     Example NWSearchLogs table— 
                                             Column name   Data Type                          Header   VARCHAR           SearchString   VARCHAR           Listings   INT           PartnerID   VARCHAR           Date   DATETIME format ‘MM/dd/yy’           ListingID   BIGINT           NWUUID   VARCHAR                       Column delimiter- ‘|’            
A sample (20 records) of network search log file that constitute the contents of NWSearchLogs table is shown below:
 
                                INFO - search|computer repair|4|6547316|05/31/08|002344458|nwuuid-6547316-       268AEB49-7654-8924-6EC9-880419BFEF02-ym       INFO - search|moving vehicles|3|6547318|05/31/08|010043286|nwuuid-6547318-       7970219D-CAD6-9779-582E-5E87BE116E0-ym       INFO - search|private equity|3|ft1|05/31/08|000000036|nwuuid-ft1-5D5C5751-DF3B-       607D-CD92-C1E7E060DDB1-ym       INFO - search|trailer rentals|6|6547318|05/31/08|000000692|nwuuid-6547318-       B77BF70D-90D9-65F1-D551-D08F8F980CAA-ym       INFO - search|computer repair|4|6547316|05/31/08|000033286|nwuuid-6547316-       7F2DD98C-0703-5A2D-9BA2-DAE15CDD3D77-ym       INFO - search|email marketing|1|7001200|05/31/08|000000817|nwuuid-7001200-       B51E5788-32EF-807F-DB26-EF42CA7DC35D-ym       INFO - search|private equity|6|8559099|05/31/08|000000942|nwuuid-8559099-       A0841A51-0820-55B7-6B5D-371F08ED3D10-ym       INFO - search|computer repair|1|6547316|05/31/08|000001130|nwuuid-6547316-       A7444F37-A16C-6D29-3DE7-7FBB5D14A766-ym       INFO - search|medical clinics|2|6547316|05/30/08|000001599|nwuuid-6547316-       9721EBC1-2700-3F75-800B-601B708B4090-ym       INFO - search|private equity|3|ft1|05/30/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1-AC335881-2738-       A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym       INFO - search|private equity|3|ft1|05/31/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1-AC335881-2738-       A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym       INFO - search|email marketing|1|7001200|05/31/08|000015880|nwuuid-7001200-       F1DCE080-C4A8-C3C7-1E46-0F2B490399C2-ym       INFO - search|blue tooth|1|8559099|05/31/08|000001802|nwuuid-8559099-9E13356C-       3635-A631-96A3-249EFED9F855-ym       INFO - search|dedicated server hosting|1|7001200|05/31/08|000002989|nwuuid-       7001200-D0EDDBDF-A47D-88BB-01C7-159AC3549FB6-ym       INFO - search|blue tooth|1|8559099|05/31/08|000001802|nwuuid-8559099-9E13356C-       3635-A631-96A3-249EFED9F855-ym       INFO - search|private equity|3|ft1|05/30/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1-AC335881-2738-       A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym       INFO - search|dedicated server hosting|1|7001200|05/31/08|000003630|nwuuid-       7001200-C781224A-3574-B559-8985-26167DBF4EA4-ym       INFO - search|financial planning|10|6547318|05/31/08|000003864|nwuuid-6547318-       CC031E3C-9ED7-1778-2A3A-58B2F6C3EBD4-ym       INFO - search|email|8|internet|05/30/08|000003942|nwuuid-internet-BAD13AE6-B90B-       E015-013A-9B91911358B0-ym       INFO - search|wireless network|6|8559099|05/30/08|000004036|nwuuid-8559099-       BC244F67-890D-0866-6D75-645EA8FB4D6B-ym                    
Problem Description: Find all the distinct search strings used by users on May 31, 2008 from network search logs.
 
Input ANSI SQL Command:
 
SELECT DISTINCT SearchString FROM NWSearchLogs WHERE date=‘May 31, 2008’
 
Example log file contains 20 records as shown above which is stored as two files of 10 records each in a distributed file system. In this illustration, the present invention is configured with 2 mapper-slave processes and two reducer-slave processes.
 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 Mapper 1 
                 Mapper 2 
               
               
                 Input Records: 10 
                 Input Records: 10 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 INFO - search|computer 
                 INFO - search|private 
               
               
                 repair|4|6547316|05/31/08|002344458|nwuuid- 
                 equity|3|ft1|05/31/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1- 
               
               
                 6547316-268AEB49-7654-8924-6EC9-880419BFEF02- 
                 AC335881-2738-A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym 
               
               
                 ym 
                 INFO - search|email 
               
               
                 INFO - search|moving 
                 marketing|1|7001200|05/31/08|000015880|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 vehicles|3|6547318|05/31/08|010043286|nwuuid- 
                 7001200-F1DCE080-C4A8-C3C7-1E46-0F2B490399C2-ym 
               
               
                 6547318-7970219D-CAD6-9779-582E-5E87BE116CE0- 
                 INFO - search|blue 
               
               
                 ym 
                 tooth|1|8559099|05/31/08|000001802|nwuuid-8559099- 
               
               
                 INFO - search|private 
                 9E13356C-3635-A631-96A3-249EFED9F855-ym 
               
               
                 equity|3|ft1|05/31/08|000000036|nwuuid-ft1- 
                 INFO - search|dedicated server 
               
               
                 5D5C5751-DF3B-607D-CD92-C1E7E060DDB1-ym 
                 hosting|1|7001200|05/31/08|000002989|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 INFO - search|trailer 
                 7001200-D0EDDBDF-A47D-88BB-01C7-159AC3549FB6-ym 
               
               
                 rentals|6|6547318|05/31/08|000000692|nwuuid- 
                 INFO - search|blue 
               
               
                 6547318-B77BF70D-90D9-65F1-D551-D08F8F980CAA- 
                 tooth|1|8559099|05/31/08|000001802|nwuuid-8559099- 
               
               
                 ym 
                 9E13356C-3635-A631-96A3-249EFED9F855-ym 
               
               
                 INFO - search|computer 
                 INFO - search|private 
               
               
                 repair|4|6547316|05/31/08|000033286|nwuuid- 
                 equity|3|ft1|05/30/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1- 
               
               
                 6547316-7F2DD98C-0703-5A2D-9BA2-DAE15CDD3D77- 
                 AC335881-2738-A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym 
               
               
                 ym 
                 INFO - search|dedicated server 
               
               
                 INFO - search|email 
                 hosting|1|7001200|05/31/08|000003630|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 marketing|1|7001200|05/31/08|000000817|nwuuid- 
                 7001200-C781224A-3574-B559-8985-26167DBF4EA4-ym 
               
               
                 7001200-B51E5788-32EF-807F-DB26-EF42CA7DC35D- 
                 INFO - search|financial 
               
               
                 ym 
                 planning|10|6547318|05/31/08|000003864|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 INFO - search|private 
                 6547318-CC031E3C-9ED7-1778-2A3A-58B2F6C3EBD4-ym 
               
               
                 Equity|6|8559099|05/31/08|000000942|nwuuid- 
                 INFO - 
               
               
                 8559099-A0841A51-0820-55B7-6B5D-371F08ED3D10- 
                 search|email|8|internet|05/30/08|000003942|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 ym 
                 internet-BAD13AE6-B90B-E015-013A-9B91911358B0-ym 
               
               
                 INFO - search|computer 
                 INFO - search|wireless 
               
               
                 repair|1|6547316|05/31/08|000001130|nwuuid- 
                 network|6|8559099|05/30/08|000004036|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 6547316-A7444F37-A16C-6D29-3DE7-7FBB5D14A766- 
                 8559099-BC244F67-890D-0866-6D75-645EA8FB4D6B-ym 
               
               
                 ym 
               
               
                 INFO - search|medical 
               
               
                 clinics|2|6547316|05/30/08|000001599|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 6547316-9721EBC1-2700-3F75-800B-601B708B4090- 
               
               
                 ym 
               
               
                 INFO - search|private 
               
               
                 Equity|3|ft1|05/30/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1- 
               
               
                 AC335881-2738-A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 Filter Records 
                 Filter Records 
               
               
                 using WHERE clause 
                 using WHERE clause 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 INFO - search|computer 
                 INFO - search|private 
               
               
                 repair|4|6547316|05/31/08|002344458|nwuuid- 
                 equity|3|ft1|05/31/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1- 
               
               
                 6547316-268AEB49-7654-8924-6EC9-880419BFEF02- 
                 AC335881-2738-A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym 
               
               
                 ym 
                 INFO - search|email 
               
               
                 INFO - search|moving 
                 marketing|1|7001200|05/31/08|000015880|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 vehicles|3|6547318|05/31/08|010043286|nwuuid- 
                 7001200-F1DCE080-C4A8-C3C7-1E46-0F2B490399C2- 
               
               
                 6547318-7970219D-CAD6-9779-582E-5E87BE116CE0- 
                 ym 
               
               
                 ym 
                 INFO - search|blue 
               
               
                 INFO - search|private 
                 tooth|1|8559099|05/31/08|000001802|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 equity|3|ft1|05/31/08|000000036|nwuuid-ft1- 
                 8559099-9E13356C-3635-A631-96A3-249EFED9F855- 
               
               
                 5D5C5751-DF3B-607D-CD92-C1E7E060DDB1-ym 
                 ym 
               
               
                 INFO - search|trailer 
                 INFO - search|dedicated server 
               
               
                 rentals|6|6547318|05/31/08|000000692|nwuuid- 
                 hosting|1|7001200|05/31/08|000002989|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 6547318-B77BF70D-90D9-65F1-D551-D08F8F980CAA- 
                 7001200-D0EDDBDF-A47D-88BB-01C7-159AC3549FB6- 
               
               
                 ym 
                 ym 
               
               
                 INFO - search|computer 
                 INFO - search|blue 
               
               
                 repair|4|6547316|05/31/08|000033286|nwuuid- 
                 tooth|1|8559099|05/31/08|000001802|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 6547316-7F2DD98C-0703-5A2D-9BA2-DAE15CDD3D77- 
                 8559099-9E13356C-3635-A631-96A3-249EFED9F855- 
               
               
                 ym 
                 ym 
               
               
                 INFO - search|email 
                 INFO - search|private 
               
               
                 marketing|1|7001200|05/31/08|000000817|nwuuid- 
                 equity|3|ft1|05/30/08|002002099|nwuuid-ft1- 
               
               
                 7001200-B51E5788-32EF-807F-DB26-EF42CA7DC35D- 
                 AC335881-2738-A707-D88C-D22184331D77-ym 
               
               
                 ym 
                 INFO - search|dedicated server 
               
               
                 INFO - search|private 
                 hosting|1|7001200|05/31/08|000003630|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 equity|6|8559099|05/31/08|000000942|nwuuid- 
                 7001200-C781224A-3574-B559-8985-26167DBF4EA4- 
               
               
                 8559099-A0841A51-0820-55B7-6B5D-371F08ED3D10- 
                 ym 
               
               
                 ym 
                 INFO - search|financial 
               
               
                 INFO - search|computer 
                 planning|10|6547318|05/31/08|000003864|nwuuid- 
               
               
                 repair|1|6547316|05/31/08|000001130|nwuuid- 
                 6547318-CC031E3C-9ED7-1778-2A3A-58B2F6C3EBD4- 
               
               
                 6547316-A7444F37-A16C-6D29-3DE7-7FBB5D14A766- 
                 ym 
               
               
                 ym 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Output (Key, Value) pairs 
                 Output (Key, Value) pairs 
               
               
                 Mapper 1 
                 Mapper 2 
               
               
                 (Key, Value) pairs 
                 (Key, Value) pairs 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 Key 
                 Value 
                 Key 
                 Value 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 1 
                 private equity 
                 1 
               
               
                 moving vehicles 
                 1 
                 email marketing 
                 1 
               
               
                 private equity 
                 1 
                 blue tooth 
                 1 
               
               
                 trailer rentals 
                 1 
                 dedicated server hosting 
                 1 
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 1 
                 blue tooth 
                 1 
               
               
                 email marketing 
                 1 
                 private equity 
                 1 
               
               
                 private equity 
                 1 
                 dedicated server hosting 
                 1 
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 1 
                 financial planning 
                 1 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 Value fields is irrevalent here, so outputting 1 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Reducer 1 
                 Reducer 2 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 Key 
                 List of Values 
                 Key 
                 List of Values 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 [1, 1, 1] 
                 private equity 
                 [1, 1] 
               
               
                 moving vehicles 
                 [1] 
                 email marketing 
                 [1] 
               
               
                 private equity 
                 [1, 1] 
                 blue tooth 
                 [1, 1] 
               
               
                 trailer rentals 
                 [1] 
                 dedicated server hosting 
                 [1, 1] 
               
               
                 email marketing 
                 [1] 
                 financial planning 
                 [1] 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Output (Key, Value) pairs 
                 Output (Key, Value) pairs 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 Key 
                 Value 
                 Key 
                 Value 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 1 
                 private equity 
                 1 
               
               
                 moving vehicles 
                 1 
                 email marketing 
                 1 
               
               
                 private equity 
                 1 
                 blue tooth 
                 1 
               
               
                 trailer rentals 
                 1 
                 dedicated server hosting 
                 1 
               
               
                 email marketing 
                 1 
                 financial planning 
                 1 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Sort on Keys 
                 Sort on Keys 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 Key 
                 Value 
                 Key 
                 Value 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 1 
                 blue tooth 
                 1 
               
               
                 email marketing 
                 1 
                 dedicated server hosting 
                 1 
               
               
                 moving vehicles 
                 1 
                 email marketing 
                 1 
               
               
                 private equity 
                 1 
                 financial planning 
                 1 
               
               
                 trailer rentals 
                 1 
                 private equity 
                 1 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 Reducer(s) 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Key 
                 List of Values 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 blue tooth 
                 [1] 
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 [1] 
               
               
                 dedicated server hosting 
                 [1] 
               
               
                 email marketing 
                 [1, 1] 
               
               
                 financial planning 
                 [1] 
               
               
                 moving vehicles 
                 [1] 
               
               
                 private equity 
                 [1, 1] 
               
               
                 trailer rentals 
                 [1] 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 Output (Key, Value) pairs 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Key 
                 Value 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 blue tooth 
                 NULL 
               
               
                 computer repair 
                 NULL 
               
               
                 dedicated server hosting 
                 NULL 
               
               
                 email marketing 
                 NULL 
               
               
                 financial planning 
                 NULL 
               
               
                 moving vehicles 
                 NULL 
               
               
                 private equity 
                 NULL 
               
               
                 trailer rentals 
                 NULL 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 Output file 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 blue tooth 
               
               
                   
                 computer repair 
               
               
                   
                 dedicated server hosting 
               
               
                   
                 email marketing 
               
               
                   
                 financial planning 
               
               
                   
                 moving vehicles 
               
               
                   
                 private equity 
               
               
                   
                 trailer rentals