Also, Cassandra, a real-time distributed database with transactional features, is a Hadoop subproject.

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So every time the tag is read, a real-time connection to that database is needed to work out how to route the bag.

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Our technology combines a large database of structured data, a real-time feed of stats, and a large database of phrases, and algorithms to tie it all together to produce articles from two to eight paragraphs in length.

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PayScale's database includes real-time salary data culled from 13 million unique compensation profiles.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to create a central database of real-time trading activity, another in a string of proposals it has made in the last few weeks in response to concerns that the stock markets are broken.

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Moreover, the application will source play play-by-play data and a database of stats going back 120 years to generate the real-time predictions on any given outcome during the game.

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It then combines this real-time information with ephemeris data, mapping, cellular base station and Wi-Fi access point database information, and other cloud-based aiding information using the SiRFusion platform.

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Incidents, like attempts to hack into a database server, show up in real-time rather than weeks later.

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