Parallel processing is a technology most commonly associated with supercomputers, and the graphics processing units found in PCs and gaming consoles.

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The first successful big data technology was enterprise data warehouses that implement massively parallel processing, scale to the petabytes, handle batch and real-time latencies with equal agility, and provide connectors to structured and unstructured sources.

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