This mean the PaaS provider will auto-magically add server instances as needed to support application processing, database processing, and storage.
Hadoop ushered in the era of the big data database, architected to distribute processing across servers instead of within storage.
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Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems.
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Just the real grunt work of log file or sensor processing before loading into an analytic database like Vertica.
With thousands of hours of television broadcast around the world every day, keeping track of all of the soundtracks and having the processing power to search the massive database could be a problem.
Database software mainly consists of two segments: online transaction processing and data warehousing.
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Deutsche Bank has chosen to use the Reuters NewsScope database which contains data from 2003 on and applies natural language processing algorithms to the wire stories to measure sentiment.
Mobil hired IBM to do the data processing, shutting off Microsoft databases in favor of Oracle database software running on a shared IBM Z900 mainframe.
After the breach, Fidelity revealed that the culprit was an employee at the payment processing company, one whose job granted him access to the company's database.
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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