Chapter 6. Big Data Processing Concepts
The need to process large volumes of data is not new. When considering the relationship between a data warehouse and its associated data marts, it becomes clear that partitioning a large dataset into a smaller one can speed up processing. Big Data datasets stored on distributed file systems or within a distributed database are already partitioned into smaller datasets. The key to understanding Big Data processing is the realization that unlike the centralized processing, ...
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