Understanding Big Data Scalability: Big Data Scalability Series, Part I

Preface

The Big Data Scalability series is a comprehensive, four-part volume containing information on many facets of database performance and scalability. This book, Understanding Big Data Scalability, is the first book in the series.

There is no doubt that Big Data and scalability are some of the hottest and most important topics in today’s fast-growing applications. Not only is data constantly growing, the rate at which we accumulate data from a variety of sources is accelerating at a dramatic pace.

Understanding Big Data Scalability provides the foundation and important basic concepts for learning how scaling a Big Data infrastructure operates, and covers the most important governing factors for implementing a scalable and dynamic Big Data ...