Big Data Glossary
Pete Warden
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Big Data Glossary
by Pete Warden
Copyright © 2011 Pete Warden. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
1. Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Document-Oriented 1
Key/Value Stores 2
Horizontal or Vertical Scaling 2
MapReduce 3
Sharding 3
2. NoSQL Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
MongoDB 6
CouchDB 6
Cassandra 7
Redis 7
BigTable 8
HBase 9
Hypertable 9
Voldemort 9
Riak 10
ZooKeeper 10
3. MapReduce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Hadoop 11
Hive 12
Pig 13
Cascading 13
Cascalog 13
mrjob 13
Caffeine 14
S4 14
MapR 14
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