discoproject/disco
a Map/Reduce framework for distributed computing observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6614
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3137
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1630 stars · 242 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Disco is an open-source distributed MapReduce framework written in Erlang with a Python job API, originally developed at Nokia Research Center. It handles job scheduling, fault tolerance, load balancing, and includes a petabyte-scale distributed filesystem (DDFS) and DiscoDB for indexing and querying billions of key-value pairs.
Use cases
- run mapreduce jobs on a cluster of unreliable machines
- analyze and process large datasets in parallel with Python
- perform log analysis across many servers
- full-text indexing of billions of records
- probabilistic modelling and data mining at scale
- count word frequencies in large text corpora
When to choose
- you need a lightweight self-hosted MapReduce framework with a simple Python API
- you want data-locality-preserving IO and a built-in distributed filesystem
- you need to run jobs written in any language via the worker protocol
When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2018
- you prefer modern alternatives like Spark, Hadoop, or Dask
- you need Windows support or cloud-managed services
Facets
framework · maturity abandoned
etl streaming data-science big-data microservices python elixir self-hosted mapreduce big-data distributed-computing erlang python-api distributed-filesystem data-engineering linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/discoproject/disco · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5cf3b18fdec1
- homepage: http://discoproject.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · c1be66a700ef
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| discoproject/disco | main | 32 |
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