Korea Telecom replaced an Oracle database with Hadoop after a five-year project to support 17 million telephone subscribers, 7.2 broadband subscribes and 15 million mobile users.

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Genetic Alliance, a network of more than 600 support groups representing patients with inherited disorders, is trying to set up a database of information about the diseases in question for researchers to consult.

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