Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems.
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It is used for niche tasks, such as running web servers, but it is generally deemed to be too immature for the most demanding environments, such as heavy-duty database systems.
As Sun's size lends legitimacy and the guarantee of long-term service to MySQL, the acquisition will likely convince more and larger enterprises to sign on to MySQL's cut-rate database systems, Yuhanna says.
As Sun's (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) size lends legitimacy and the guarantee of long-term service to MySQL, the acquisition will likely convince more and larger enterprises to sign on to MySQL's cut-rate database systems, Yuhanna says.
This traditional database platforms, known as relational database management systems (RDBMS) all use a language called SQL (structured query language).
There, with technology first developed in the 1960s for a local Air Force base, 1, 000 engineers work to hone the company's database search systems.
Over time, cost pressure has led the IT organizations to consider open source for mission critical components such as database management systems (mySQL) or the operating system itself (Linux).
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Since our story, Sybase, Informix and IBM have announced that they would sell database software for Linux systems.
We screened the Thomson Reuters IBES database via FactSet Research Systems and found five stocks where Wall Street analysts are marking their numbers up.
Consultancies are also springing up, selling companies on ways to use Amazon for things like online backup systems and database clusters to speed a Web site's performance.
In March, unknown intruders broke into the computer systems of database giant LexisNexis, gaining access to the Social Security numbers and personal data of hundreds of thousands of people.
The Center for Advanced Computing provides high-performance computing systems, database, storage, programming, porting, tuning, and training services to Cornell researchers and external clients, including corporations, small businesses and IT industry leaders.
The company wanted to create a database archive for its operational data systems as it was filling up its storage capacity.
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Oracle is helping out by adapting its database software to run on lower-end systems.
The Payments Council - the trade body which looks after the nuts and bolts of UK payments systems - is working on a database of UK mobile numbers linked to bank accounts.
With the newest addition to its engineered-systems family, the Exadata X3 Database Machine, Oracle is giving customers more justification to realize they need to move beyond the traditional and non-optimized systems of the past.
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This means that if you want to integrate your system with other systems, like your website or accounting database or if you want to perform complex customizations (and have the expertise to do so) you can dig into the entrails of SugarCRM to make it do exactly what you want it to do.
He joined Tokutek from StreamBase Systems, which he co-founded with database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker.
We need systems that make positions transparent in a single database and then tag them to exposures in a mutual fund, bonds or a hedge fund so if you want to see the accounting position you can get it across different types of holdings.
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For example, HUD is undertaking a major plan to integrate its data systems, which will result in significant improvements in its database and subsidy estimates.
In 2007 the Estonian defenders realized that many of their websites were based on Content Management Systems that built every web page on the fly from a database.
Unlike other systems that require costly manual surveys to build and maintain a database of indoor Wi-Fi radio locations, the SiRFusion platform constantly updates its database automatically using crowdsourcing techniques.
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The largest marketing-database companies in the U.S. include Acxiom, Alliance Data Systems Corp.
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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All users would be required to register in a database, so market participants could make informed decisions about when and where to deploy their systems.
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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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Sophisticated execution management systems can capture the data that TCA needs, added Fatica and route it to a database for analysis.
The typical big-business database has grown in size a hundredfold in the past five years, bloated by the sprawl of computing systems and applications, Internet commerce and recordkeeping mandated by government regulation.
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