Preface
Rapid advances in digital sensors, networks, storage, and computation, along with their availability at low cost, are leading to the creation of huge collections of data. Initially, the drive for generation and storage of data came from scientists; telescopes and instruments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generate a huge amount of data that needed to be processed to enable scientific discovery. LHC, for example, was reported as generating as much as 1 TB of data every second. Later, with the popularity of the SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, and cloud) paradigm, enormous amount of data started to be generated, processed, and stored by enterprises. For instance, Facebook in 2012 reported that the company processed over 200 ...
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