RAFT at Work: Speeding-Up MapReduce Applications under Task and Node Failures

Summary: RAFT at Work speeds up MapReduce under task and node failures using recovery algorithms. It piggybacks checkpoints on progress, reuses intermediates, and maintains per-map input lists to stream to reducers; a web-demo compares RAFT with Hadoop. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4478
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
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Overall Rank: 13,500 | 6.18%
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