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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO Business Intelligence

NoSQL NoSQL is a type of distributed database design that enables users to store and query data without relying on traditional structures often found in relational databases. Because of this, NoSQL databases allow for rapid scalability and are well-suited for large and unstructured data sets.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2006: Amazon spearheads the cloud initiative, drops EC2 and S3 into the market. 2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. Hadoop was developed in 2006. Amazon launches AWS (but no cloud solutions yet). The pain point?

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A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action

Occam's Razor

Is there anything in the analytics space that is so full of promise and hype and sexiness and possible awesomeness than "big data?" So what is big data really? As I interpret it, big data is the collection of massive databases of structured and unstructured data. " I don't think so.

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