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The Future of Data Integration
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
— Niels Bohr
Like the entire field of data management, data integration keeps evolving as technology shifts and new applications come to the forefront. Initially, data integration was focused on challenges that occur within enterprises. As the Web emerged, new problems were introduced to data integration, such as scaling to a much larger number of sources and handling sources with less structure. We continue to see the field evolving today as data are being produced faster than ever before and in new forms. Large scientific experiments rely on data management for progress. People create data fragments (often called breadcrumbs) whenever they ...
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