Big data

Big data

Voluminous amount of unstructured and semi-structured data such as the collective content on the internet and those within large social networking clouds. Big data are too big and costly to handle with traditional relational database. Various scaling techniques developed by website developers and the availability of low cost machines with a decent amount of processing power make it possible for large-scale data processing.

Industry: Computer; Internet

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Redis

Internet; Big data

Redis is a database application that keeps the entire database in RAM for fast performance. Though the entire dataset is kept in memory, it's also backed up on disk periodically, so it can serve as a ...

BigTable

Internet; Big data

Developed by Google, BigTable is a database application that has a more complex structure and interface than many NoSQL datastores, with a hierarchy and multidimensional access. It is designed to ...

Salesforce.com

Computer; Big data

Salesforce.com Inc. is a global cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though best known for its customer relationship management (CRM) product, Salesforce has also ...

Union Bay Networks

Internet; Big data

Union Bay Networks is a Seattle based cloud networking startup that was purchased by Apple in 2014.

big data

Computer; Big data

Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate to deal with them. Challenges include analysis, capture, data curation, ...

Scraping Meta Language

Internet; Big data

Scraping Meta Language - artificial language created for building web scrapers logic in the Diggernaut environment. Language includes only commands and statements used in the pages and documents ...