It's not an either/or. Cats behave towards us in some ways like they do toward their mothers, in other ways otherwise.
My cat treats me largely as his butler -- opening doors, fetching beverages, and so on. Perhaps he's been reading some P. G. Wodehouse.
*Sorry about the misspelling of "ever"!"
and the benchmarks didn't really speak to any of those. But some of those areas may equally fall victim to the "Don't reinvent the wheel argument."
MapReduce is surely an appealing paradigm for lightweight, reliably-parallel programming. At least for research into parallel algorithms, it has much to recommend it. But whether MapReduce will play a major role going forward in production use seems at this point to still be an open question."
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.