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author Lewin Bormann <lbo@spheniscida.de>
date Sat, 30 Jan 2016 20:47:38 +0000
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# LocalMR

LocalMR is a MapReduce implementation that is designed to be run on a single machine.
It is best suited for calculation-heavy tasks: While it can run code concurrently,
the Hard Disk obviously remains the bottleneck. So sometimes, a local `grep` may be
faster :)