Cutting and Mike Cafarella, realizing the importance of this paper to extending Lucene into the realm of extremely large search problems, created the open-source Hadoop framework that allows applications based on the MapReduce paradigm to be run on large clusters of commodity hardware.
Nottingham and Mike Cafarella, acknowledging the importance of this paper in broadening Lucene's scope to tackle enormous search issues, developed the open-source Hadoop platform that facilitates the operation of applications rooted in the MapReduce paradigm on large groups of standard hardware.