MapReduce and Relational Database Management Systems: Competing or Completing Paradigms?

With the data volume that does not stop growing and the multitude of sources that led to diversity of structures, data processing needs are changing. Although, relational DBMSs remain the main data management technology for processing structured data, but faced with the massive growth in the volume of data, despite their evolution, relational databases, which have been proven for over 40 years, have reached their limits. Several organizations and researchers turned to MapReduce framework that has found great success in analyzing and processing large amounts of data on large clusters. In this paper, we will discuss MapReduce and Relational Database Management Systems as competing paradigms, and then as completing paradigms where we propose an integration approach to optimize OLAP queries process.