A Blast implementation in Hadoop MapReduce using low cost commodity hardware

It is a known fact that health in all its kinds is the key to a successful society. The medical field is nowadays generating huge flows of data that need urgent, fast analyzing, and processing. A complete analysis of a patient’s personal file is now a must in order to understand the different diseases and thus be able to find cures. Due to the amount of generated medical Data that is going out of hand, a desperate need to new Big Data technologies has manifested itself.