Big Data Glossary – O’Reilly Media

Big Data Glossary – O’Reilly Mediay

The TOC:

1. Terms
2. NoSQL Databases (read on 2011-09-25)
3. MapReduce
4. Storage
5. Servers
6. Processing
7. NLP
8. Machine Learning
9. Visualization
10. Acquisition
11. Serialization

Quotes from the book:

… NoSQL. It’s a bit misleading, though, since almost every produc- tion environment that they’re used in also has an SQL-based database for anything that requires flexible queries and reliable transactions, and as the products mature, it’s likely that some of them will start supporting the language (i.e. SQL) as an option. If “NoSQL” seems too combative, think of it as “NotOnlySQL.” …