Google has abandoned MapReduce, the system for running data analytics jobs spread across many servers the company developed and later open sourced, in favor of a new cloud analytics system it has built called Cloud Dataflow. MapReduce has been a highly popular infrastructure and programming model for doing parallelized distributed computing on server clusters. It is the basis of Apache Hadoop, the
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