Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud
by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel
17.9 Wrap-Up
In this chapter, we introduced big data, discussed how large data is getting and discussed hardware and software infrastructure for working with big data. We introduced traditional relational databases and Structured Query Language (SQL) and used the sqlite3 module to create and manipulate a books database in SQLite. We also demonstrated loading SQL query results into pandas DataFrames.
We discussed the four major types of NoSQL databases—key–value, document, columnar and graph—and introduced NewSQL databases. We stored JSON tweet objects as documents in a cloud-based MongoDB Atlas cluster, then summarized them in an interactive visualization displayed on a Folium map.
We introduced Hadoop and how it’s used in big-data applications. ...
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