Big-data Processing and MapReduce

Question 1

Identify the restrictions and properties of functional programming and how to Classify functions as valid/invalid based on these restrictions

Question 2

what is the directed acyclic graph (DAG) representation of a functional program

Question 3

what is the the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model and how it works

Question 4

what is the meaning of stages in BSP and how they relate to computation and communication.

Question 5

Explain how the three functions of MapReduce (Map-Combin-Reduce) interact with each other.

Question 6

Analyze a simple MapReduce program given the definition of the functions and a sample input file.