Data Management in the Web 2.0 Era

With the growing penetration of electronic networks, the management and architecture of structured and unstructured data is becoming challenging and is affecting the way data is stored and processed. In many of today’s Web 2.0 businesses such as Google, FaceBook, Twitter and others, it’s not unheard of to process terabytes and even petabytes of data each day. The architectural challenge of humungous masses of data along with real-time or near real-time access to it has led to a broad reaching movement to find alternatives to the relational data management systems prevalent in enterprise business applications. Read more ..