ScaleOut drives performance close to the CEP timeframe, seconds or minutes rather than hours of a batch processing system.

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Further, while Hadoop is inherently a batch-oriented data processing system, Aster will return answers to queries immediately, Argyros says.

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The system needed to melt down and extrude the reminder of the last batch before moving on to the new spools.

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That is the discussion taking place right now, although the cost of a new and improved Metop system means the future satellites and their instruments will again be a batch-buy.

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Three village schools have closed in the last batch of changes during a shake-up of Norfolk's education system.

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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata took to the internets to deliver an encouraging batch of news directly to fans, starting with a promised update to overall system speed of the Wii U, a welcome improvement to all those gamers who are short on patience -- which, really, is all of them.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: Along with a new batch of S Pen apps, owners of Samsung's latest tablet will also find a new system update that's ripe for the picking.

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