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What Does 'Big Data' Mean?
It is interesting to note that a substantial subset of the computer science community has redefined their research agenda to fit under the marketing banner of "Big...
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Possible Hadoop Trajectories
Hadoop has spread rapidly in the last few years as a platform for parallel computation in Java, but we believe a lot of improvement will be required for serious...
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The 'No SQL' Discussion Has Nothing to Do With SQL
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about "No SQL" databases. This blog post considers the performance argument about No SQL databases; a subsequent posting...
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The End of a DBMS Era (Might Be Upon Us)
Relational database management systems (DBMSs) have been remarkably successful in capturing the DBMS marketplace. To a first approximation they are “the only game...
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