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Suppose you want to run regular statistical analyses on your Web site’s traffic log data — several hundred terabytes, updated weekly. (Don’t laugh. This is not unheard of for popular Web sites.) ...

The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. The distributed processing and "distributed computing" terms were ...

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Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

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Hazelcast, a provider of an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) platform, is unveiling Hazelcast Jet, a new platform that gives users a distributed processing engine for big data streams. With ...

Geospatial web services and data processing represent a transformative approach in managing and analysing spatial datasets across diverse disciplines. By leveraging web-based platforms and ...