• Hadoop MapReduce Performance on SSDs for Analyzing Social Networks 

      Bakratsas M., Basaras P., Katsaros D., Tassiulas L. (2018)
      The advent of Solid State Drives (SSDs) stimulated a lot of research to investigate and exploit to the extent possible the potentials of the new drive. The focus of this work is on the investigation of the relative performance ...
    • Hadoop mapreduce performance on SSDs: The case of complex network analysis tasks 

      Bakratsas M., Basaras P., Katsaros D., Tassiulas L. (2017)
      This article investigates the relative performance of SSDs versus hard disk drives (HDDs) when they are used as underlying storage for Hadoop’s MapReduce. We examine MapReduce tasks and data suitable for performing analysis ...