[psfried]

Apart from Google, which has a patent related to their 2004 paper, I don't know how much people are trying to "take credit" for map-reduce. I'm certainly not. But I do think the approach of running map-reduce continuously in realtime is interesting and worth sharing. And I hope that some folks will be interested enough to try it out, either with Flow or in a system of their own design, and report on how it goes for them.