With their traditions of hosting leagues, bowling centers knew a lot about their customers long before enhanced database technologies were broadly employed by any industry.
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.
The Bank of Social Technologies (BTS in Portuguese) is a database that includes over 600 technologies certified under the Banco do Brasil Foundation Award for Social Technology, since its first edition in 2001.
And perhaps the biggest expression of architectural choice is a hybrid architecture: rather than using a single database technology, mixing and matching technologies to play to their strengths.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq, dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin, and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq (nyse: NVT - news - people ), dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ), and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
Both Memcached, which accelerates existing relational databases like MySQL, and Redis, which is a complete, stand-alone database and acceleration solution, are open source technologies.
Design of the stolen-phone database is complicated by the fact that the carriers use very different cellphone technologies.
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Earlier this week Google introduced us to its Knowledge Graph, a 500 million plus fact-filled database that it has developed from its own research and its acquisition of MetaWeb Technologies.
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There are hundreds of technologies that got their start at NASA. You can search through the database for different categories from consumer to medical to transportation.
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The device links to a database of criminal records, iris and face images contributed by local law enforcement that use other BI2 technologies.
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