It is worth mentioning that fraud detection is not the only thing that MapReduce applications can help you with and there are many others, with graph analysis being one of them. For example, if you are the owner of a social media company, will it not be imperative for you to have a better understanding of how your users are connected. In fact, if you want to have an edge over the others, you may also want to enhance the networks of your community without any difficulty. It is then that you should write some SQL-MapReduce functions and take full advantage of the same. more info >>