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processing. If one were to consider all the data, the associated processes, and the metrics used in
any decision-making situation within any organization, we realize that we have used information
(volumes of data) in a variety of formats and varying degrees of complexity and derived decisions
with the data in nontraditional software processes.
We are seeing the evolution of Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL with changes and new fea-
tures coming out of the woodwork every few months and sometimes weeks. ese architectures
are being designed and built to handle large and complex data volumes and can process eectively
in a batch-oriented environment and have limited real-time or interactive capabilities that are
found in ...