Next, we are going to touch on subjects you may be unfamiliar with. Until now, the Hadoop big data platform has been an open source, Linux-based system. The good news is that soon it will be Windows-based, delivering an easier to understand and configure, and more reliable system. First, let us look at big data.
Thik of three "V"s:
Velocity is the speed at which data is being thrown at your database. Data feeds from places such as stock exchanges or some industrial processes overwhelm relational databases. Technologies such as StreamInsight are one answer, allowing us to filter out just the data we need. But sometimes we want to keep all of the data, perhaps for later processing, or maybe for reporting, analyics or data mining.
Volume is the size of data being queried. Monitoring instruments, or web feeds from a very busy commercial site, may create so much data that it is not practical or required to break it down, process it and...