When Jeff has trouble sleeping, he MapReduces sheep.
—Jeff Dean Facts
Data (big or otherwise) has been woven into the fabric of most businesses. The world is at a stage where Big Data directly drives corporate strategy. To maintain a competitive edge, most businesses try to run their analytics pipeline in near real-time. Although this captures the behavior of a large class of applications that rely on unstructured data, it is not exhaustive: a significant chunk of data sources are structured, and their analysis applications require data-warehousing capabilities. One way to handle these requirements ...
