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

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Risk is moving to real-time in trading limits and some other areas, but overall risk is still mostly end of day batch processing and pulls from multiple sources of data.

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And the reality is, there is more batch processing and post-process reporting in Big Data applications (vs. real-time capabilities) than insiders want to admit.

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