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What is Http Daemon (HTTPD)

Chapter 8
Handbook of Research on Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics
HTTPD is a software program that runs in the background of a Web server and waits for incoming server requests. The daemon answers the requests automatically and serves the hypertext and multimedia documents over the Internet using HTTP.
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NoSQL Databases
Ganesh Chandra Deka (Ministry of Labour and Employment, India)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5864-6.ch008
Abstract
NoSQL databases are designed to meet the huge data storage requirements of cloud computing and big data processing. NoSQL databases have lots of advanced features in addition to the conventional RDBMS features. Hence, the “NoSQL” databases are popularly known as “Not only SQL” databases. A variety of NoSQL databases having different features to deal with exponentially growing data-intensive applications are available with open source and proprietary option. This chapter discusses some of the popular NoSQL databases and their features on the light of CAP theorem.
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