Recently at SQLRally, Rushabh Mehta sir pointed me to a great BigData resource. It was a great read and thought it could help you too. So, If you want to get started on the world of BigData, then there’s a resource that could be of help:

Oreilly’s Book: Planning for BigData

It’s a short book (80 pages) and it’s free too. This book would help you get acquainted with following BigData Topics*:

1. What is BigData?
2. What is Apache Hadoop?
3. Brief description of companies in BigData space
4. Microsoft’s plan for BigData
5. BigData in cloud
6. Data Market Places (like Azure DataMarket)
7. NoSQL World
8. Visualization
9. Future of BigData.

(*Sourced from the Index of the Book)

That’s about it. Get your hands on this short and free book, if you are interested to learn about BigData

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