Chapter 18

Introduction to Big Data Integration

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Data integration and unstructured data

The discussion in the previous sections on batch data integration and real-time data integration addressed moving and integrating data stored in structured data structures, such as relational databases. However, databases only contain a small percentage of the data in an organization. The vast majority of organizational data is unstructured. It is important to be able to analyze unstructured data as well as integrate unstructured data with structured data.

A combination of recent breakthroughs in data integration technology and the knowledge developed ...

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