MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets on a distributed computing environment. It allows users to write map and reduce functions to process input key/value pairs in parallel across large clusters of commodity machines. The MapReduce framework handles parallelization, scheduling, input/output distribution, and fault tolerance automatically, allowing developers to focus just on the logic of their map and reduce functions. The paper presents the MapReduce model and describes its implementation at Google for processing terabytes of data across thousands of machines efficiently and with fault tolerance.