An overview of business intelligence technology Page 1 88 CommuniCations of the aCm |
auguST 2011 | vol. 54 | no. 8 review articles BUsiness intelliGence (Bi) sOFtware is a collection …

Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential elements of
decision support, which has increasingly become a focus of the database industry. Many …

In this paper, we review the background and state-of-the-art of big data. We first introduce
the general background of big data and review related technologies, such as could …

Recent technological advancements have led to a deluge of data from distinctive domains
(eg, health care and scientific sensors, user-generated data, Internet and financial …

Growing main memory capacity has fueled the development of in-memory big data
management and processing. By eliminating disk I/O bottleneck, it is now possible to support …

Serverless computing has recently attracted a lot of attention from research and industry due
to its promise of ultimate elasticity and operational simplicity. However, there is no …

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be
figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In …

This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that
power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how …

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to
scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …