Oracle, which has purchased hardware maker Sun Microsystems, in addition to many large database-related companies over the past several years, can make that kind of claim.

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Note that Wikibon defines big data as data sets whose size, type and speed of creation make them impractical to process and analyze with traditional database technologies and related tools in a cost- or time-effective way.

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The connection would have eluded most database-searching tools, which require at least one perfect match to construct a thread of related transactions.

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