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What is MVCC (Multi Version Concurrency Control)

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Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques
It is a Concurrency Control method which allows concurrent access to the database without using any locking mechanism and by maintaining different versions of the same data.
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Role of Open Source Software in Big Data Storage
Rupali Ahuja (University of Delhi, India), Jigyasa Malik (University of Delhi, India), Ronak Tyagi (University of Delhi, India), and R. Brinda (University of Delhi, India)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3142-5.ch005
Abstract
Today, the world is revolving around Big Data. Each organization is trying hard to explore ways for deriving value out of huge pile of data we are generating each moment. Open Source Software are widely being adopted by most academicians, researchers and industrialists to handle various Big Data needs because of their easy availability, flexibility, affordability and interoperability. As a result, several open source Big Data tools have been developed. This chapter discusses the role of Open Source Software in Big Data Storage and how various organizations have benefitted from its use. It provides an overview of popular Open Source Big Data Storage technologies existing today. Distributed File Systems and NoSQL databases meant for storing Big Data have been discussed with their features, applications and comparison.
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