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Experimental Cloud

Query Processing System

for Social Networks

25.1 INTRODUCTION

As stated in the earlier chapters, cloud computing is an emerging paradigm in the information tech-

nology and data processing communities. Enterprises utilize cloud computing services to outsource

data maintenance, which can result in signicant nancial benets. Businesses store and access data

at remote locations in the cloud. As the popularity of cloud computing grows, the service providers

face ever-increasing challenges. They have to maintain huge quantities of heterogeneous data while

providing efcient information retrieval. Thus, the key emphasis f ...