Chapter 21

Quick Reference Guide

This Quick Reference Guide encapsulates some of the more important topics covered in the book. The treatment here sometimes mimics and sometimes summarizes the material. Most sections give an overview and a pointer to where in the book you should look for more detail.

Analytics Appliance

Large-scale query/reporting/OLAP systems and big data analytics applications require a level of performance that can be addressed using analytics appliances, which are multiple processor systems that are sometimes customized systems and sometimes configured using commodity components. The primary performance driver for traditional reporting is scalability, with respect to both potentially massive data volumes as well as the ...

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