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5 Big Data Use Cases- How Companies Use Big Data

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Amazon launched a promotional offer in 2011 – “Amazon pays shoppers $5 if they walk out of the store without any purchases.” ” Interesting? According to IDC, the amount of data will increase by 20 times - between 2010 and 2020, with 77% of the data relevant to organizations being unstructured.

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Big Data Timeline- Series of Big Data Evolution

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1998 -An open source relational database was developed by Carlo Strozzi who named it as NoSQL. However, 10 years later, NoSQL databases gained momentum with the need to process large unstructured data sets. In 2011, it took only 2 days to generate 1.8 1999 -Information was quantified by Hal R. zettabytes.

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Google BigQuery: A Game-Changing Data Warehousing Solution

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Since its public release in 2011, BigQuery has been marketed as a unique analytics cloud data warehouse tool that requires no virtual machines or hardware resources. Q: Is BigQuery SQL or NoSQL? A: BigQuery is a hybrid system between SQL and NoSQL.

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Healthcare Big Data Projects, Applications and Examples

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Hadoop’s capability to store large unstructured data sets in NoSQL databases and using MapReduce to analyze this data helps in the analysis and detection of patterns in the field of Fraud Detection. This data was mostly generated by various regulatory requirements, record keeping, compliance and patient care.

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Top 10 Big Data Companies of 2023

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The company was established in 2011, and as of right now, they employ about 250 people. Micro Focus has rapidly amassed a robust portfolio of Big Data products in just a short amount of time. They work with companies including Cisco, Intel, Paypal, American Express, and more. The USA serves as the company's home base.