Big Data

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

Chapter 1. A new paradigm for Big Data

1.1. How this book is structured

1.2. Scaling with a traditional database

1.2.1. Scaling with a queue

1.2.2. Scaling by sharding the database

1.2.3. Fault-tolerance issues begin

1.2.4. Corruption issues

1.2.5. What went wrong?

1.2.6. How will Big Data techniques help?

1.3. NoSQL is not a panacea

1.4. First principles

1.5. Desired properties of a Big Data system

1.5.1. Robustness and fault tolerance

1.5.2. Low latency reads and updates

1.5.3. Scalability

1.5.4. Generalization

1.5.5. Extensibility

1.5.6. Ad hoc queries

1.5.7. Minimal maintenance

1.5.8. Debuggability

1.6. The problems with fully ...