CHAPTER 3

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Big Data Ingestion and Streaming Patterns

Traditional business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse (DW) solutions use structured data extensively. Database platforms such as Oracle, Informatica, and others had limited capabilities to handle and manage unstructured data such as text, media, video, and so forth, although they had a data type called CLOB and BLOB; which were used to store large amounts of text, and accessing data from these platforms was a problem. With the advent of multistructured (a.k.a. unstructured) data in the form of social media and audio/video, there has to be a change in the way data is ingested, preprocessed, ...

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