Speaking in a broad sense:general flavors to choose from when it comes to Big Data solutions

• Custom build BigData frameworks like Teradata and VLDB implementations from Oracle that are proprietary frameworks designed to deal with large datasets. These frameworks are still very relational in orientation and are not designed to work with unstructured data sets.
• Data Warehouse Appliances like Oracle’s Exadata. This introduces the concept of DW-in-a-box where the entire framework needed for a typical DW implementation (the Hardware, Software Framework in terms of data store and Advanced Analytical tools) are all vertically integrated and provided by the same vendor as a packaged solution.
• Open Source NoSQL-oriented Big Data Frameworks such as Hadoop and Cassandra. These frameworks implement advanced analytical and mining algorithms such as Map/Reduce and are designed to be installed on commodity hardware for an MPP architecture with huge Master/Slave clusters. They are very good at dealing with vast amounts of unstructured, text-oriented information.
• Commercial Big Data Frameworks like AsterData and GreenPlum, which follow the same paradigm of MPP infrastructures but have implemented their own add-ons such as SQL-MR and other optimizations for faster analytics.

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