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The Wondrous World of Data
A blog discussing a variety of topics related to data warehousing, business intelligence, big data, database technology and data virtualization, written by Rick van der Lans.
Recent Posts
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Unstructured data is a misnomer
25 Mar 2016 -
Big Data Myth 3: Big Data is Too Big for SQL
05 Oct 2015 -
Convergence of Data Virtualization Servers and SQL-on-Hadoop Engines?
02 Jul 2015
Nowadays, the term unstructured data pops up everywhere. It owes its popularity for a large part to the success of big data, to successful technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop, and to formats such ...
The third big data myth in this series deals with how big data is defined by some. Some state that big data is data that is too big for a relational database, and with that, they undoubtedly mean a ...
Hadoop has become a popular and powerful platform for data storage and data processing. Data stored in Hadoop can be used by a wide range of applications and tools and for a wide range of use ...