The 'Big Data' Revolution: How Number Crunchers Can Predict Our Lives

Posted by Libertatea on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:49AM
from the npr.org dept.

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/07/173176488/the-big-data-revolution-how-number-crunchers-can-predict-our-lives?ft=1&f=1019#.UThUoRAfCm4.hackernews

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Re:The 'Big Data' Revolution: How Number Crunchers Can Predi... by tawgx on Thursday March 07, 2013 @05:02AM (#5336936)

Programming/administering SQL based DB apps is just such a hassle and pain that anything to replace that paradigm (NoSql,Hadoop,..) is such a welcome change. I hope that the open source community keeps leading this space, so we don't end up with MS, Oracle,HP, etc buying up the space and get us back to square one.

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