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Top 14 Big Data Analytics Tools in 2024

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quintillion bytes of data today, and unless that data is organized properly, it is useless. MongoDB This free, open-source platform, which came into the limelight in 2010, is a document-oriented (NoSQL) database that is used to store a large amount of information in a structured manner. A global data explosion is generating almost 2.5

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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. Big data analysis played a crucial part in Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. US alone will face a shortage of 1.5

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How Big Data Analysis helped increase Walmarts Sales turnover?

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One petabyte is equivalent to 20 million filing cabinets; worth of text or one quadrillion bytes. In 2012, Walmart made a move from the experiential 10 node Hadoop cluster to a 250 node Hadoop cluster. petabytes of unstructured data from 1 million customers every hour. v) IsHoliday to indicate if it is a holiday week or not.