Some Big Data companies are beginning to look at ways of taking the SQL language and allow these queries to be performed on Hadoop.

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He said in future scientists might be put on an on-call rota so queries could be answered in a timely fashion.

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The Cascalog system has combined the Cascading system for abstraction of advanced data processing on Hadoop and other systems, the Datalog declarative programming language that is well suited for expressing database queries in an abstract form, and the Clojure language to create a declarative language for queries that can be run on Apache Hadoop.

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Extra call center representatives will be on duty to handle an expected increase in queries from customers.

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If App Stores are going to intercept web search, Google stands to be less relevant for those queries and users than it is on the desktop.

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The limited roll out will allow the results to be tweaked, and supply the engineering team with more data on queries made and how people (more importantly, how people who advertise on Facebook) interact with the service.

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The Times newspaper said on Saturday that up to 100 MPs could be facing further queries about their expense claims.

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Through this significant coup Google will power more than 90 per cent of all Internet search queries in the Japan market, but the consumer user interface would be different on Yahoo!

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