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Microsoft's Power BI comes out of preview and available on July 24th
The service runs on Azure and leverages main memory in contrast to two stage, disk-based MapReduce like older data stored in Hadoop. The support for Apache Spark was added directly into Power BI last night, and now users will benefit from query …
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Bits | Companies Move On From Big Data Technology Hadoop
Google's File System and MapReduce, the subjects of the two papers, were based on computing systems that were not organized around drawing a lot of computer memory in a short time; there just hadn't been that much data before. It did a good job, but it …
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