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The World According to LINQ: Big data is about more than size, and LINQ is more than up to the task.

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Programmers building Web- and cloud-based applications wire together data from many different sources such as sensors, social networks, user interfaces, spreadsheets, and stock tickers. Most of this data does not fit in the closed and clean world of traditional relational databases. It is too big, unstructured, denormalized, and streaming in realtime. Presenting a unified programming model across all these disparate data models and query languages seems impossible at first. By focusing on the commonalities instead of the differences, however, most data sources will accept some form of computation to filter and transform collections of data.

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      cover image Queue
      Queue  Volume 9, Issue 8
      Data
      August 2011
      54 pages
      ISSN:1542-7730
      EISSN:1542-7749
      DOI:10.1145/2016036
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