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Practical Big Data Analytics
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Practical Big Data Analytics

by Nataraj Dasgupta
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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The need for NoSQL technologies

While most database systems were initially designed to manage transactions, the growth of internet-related technologies and new types of data that did not require the strict puritan nature of transactional systems necessitated the development of alternative frameworks.

For instance, storing the following types of data does not necessarily require a complex transactional database:

  • Emails
  • Media such as audio/video files
  • Social network messages
  • Website HTML pages
  • Many others

Additionally, the increase in users, and as a consequence, data volume, signaled the need for developing more robust architectures with the following characteristics:

  • Scalable to manage ever increasing data volume
  • Leverage commodity hardware ...
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