MapReduce
Before we can start our exploration of the Couchbase Server views, we first need to understand what MapReduce is and how we'll use it to create secondary indexes for our documents.
At its simplest, MapReduce is a programming pattern used to process large amounts of data that is typically distributed across several nodes in parallel. In the NoSQL world, MapReduce implementations may be found on many platforms from MongoDB to Hadoop, and of course Couchbase.
Even if you're new to the NoSQL landscape, it's quite possible that you've already worked with a form of MapReduce. The inspiration for MapReduce in distributed NoSQL systems was drawn from the functional programming concepts of map and reduce. While purely functional programming languages ...
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