Tag: Big Data
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Addressing Big-Data Challenges
Ramon Chen, of Rainstor, in a long, Q&A-styled article about Addressing Big-Data Challenges. Unfortunately I know this behaviour he mentions just too well:
At a more granular level, organizations continue to retain critical, structured, transactional data in production system environments far longer than is legally required.… Continued
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Why There Won’t Be a LAMP For Big Data
Stephen O’Grady puts some thoughts into words in Why There Won’t Be a LAMP For Big Data that I also had when reading Edd Dumbill’s The SMAQ stack for big data (Storage, MapReduce and Query).
It is not clear to me that we will have, at any point in the future, a LAMP equivalent for big data.… Continued
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The problems with ACID
Danial Abadi throws a lengthy post at the DB world: The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL, introducing an even longer paper that they’re going to present at this months VLDB2010 in Singapore: The Case for Determinism in Database Systems.… Continued
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Synthesis of Specialized and General Purpose
Closing the specialization vs. general purpose mini-series (part 1, part 2) is Keith Laker from Oracle’s Data Warehouse Insider blog in The Next Evolutionary Step – Analytical Connectivity. And he’s arguing that the shift towards specialization is already over, and appliances will be dead within 2-3 years.… Continued