The company has already done this with 1, 700 available Android devices, so it has a massive comparative database to form an even clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses of a new device.
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That was despite 48% of those polled conceding that such checks could form a database for later confiscation efforts.
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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It provides technical support in the form of an online database of some 10, 000 documents, each about 1, 000 words long, and each addressing a particular problem.
The first was to rewrite an IBM database language called SQL into a form that would allow it to run on all kinds of computers, from mainframes to desktops.
The database produced by the Sloan survey will form one element of the so-called Virtual Observatory.
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That all changed a few years ago when, in a demonstration of its network mapping software, Trampoline Systems distilled the reams of data to a clickable form and uploaded the resulting database to enronexplorer.com.
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He introduced a database firewall that has been downloaded 75, 000 times in its free form.
Database is a data storage mechanism, which stores data logically and physically in the form of data files.
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The company split itself in two, one half publishing the magazine and the other managing the mainframe database of content that powered the magazine (and eventually, on-screen listings.) Benefitting, perhaps, from the fact that the content of the magazine was highly structured (and repetitive) to begin with, the database part of the company set out to abstract the ongoing production of the listings from their printed form.
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