Big Data

The key challenge of the information society is to turn data into information, information into knowledge, knowledge into value. This has become increasingly complex. Data comes in larger volumes, diverse shapes, from different sources. Data is more heterogeneous and less structured than forty years ago. Nevertheless, it still needs to be processed fast, with support for complex operations.

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XQuery

Search across a variety of XML data

Priscilla Walmsley

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Textbook.M.077.05.1 2016 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.05.2 2016 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.05.3 2016 9 / 1 Big Data Available
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Graph databases

Ian Robinson, Jim Webber & Emil Eifrem

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Textbook.M.077.06.3 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.06.1 2015 9 / 1 Big Data On-site use only
Textbook.M.077.06.2 2015 9 / 1 Big Data 31.3.2025 Unavailable
Textbook.M.077.06.4 2015 9 / 1 Big Data 31.3.2025 Unavailable
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The Big Data Textbook

Teaching large-scale databases in universities

by Ghislain Fourny

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Textbook.M.077.08.1 2023 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.08.2 2023 9 / 1 Big Data Available
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Database systems

The complete book

[Hector] Garcia-Molina, [Jeffrey] Ullman, [Jennifer] Widom

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EX.0000.56.1 2002 Available
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Textbook.B.009.06.1 2009 4 / 2 Data Modelling and Databases On-site use only
Textbook.B.009.03.1 2014 4 / 2 Data Modelling and Databases 18.3.2025 Unavailable
Textbook.B.009.06.2 2009 4 / 2 Data Modelling and Databases 27.3.2025 Unavailable
Textbook.B.009.03.2 2014 4 / 2 Data Modelling and Databases 31.3.2025 Unavailable
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Textbook.M.077.07.1 2014 9 / 1 Big Data 3.4.2025 Unavailable
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Learning Spark

Holden Karau, Andy Konwinski, Patrick Wendell, and Matei Zaharia

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Textbook.M.077.02.2 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.02.3 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.02.4 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.02.5 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.02.6 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.02.1 2015 9 / 1 Big Data On-site use only
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XML in a nutshell

[a desktop quick reference]

Eliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means

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Textbook.M.077.01.2 2004 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.01.3 2004 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.01.1 2004 9 / 1 Big Data On-site use only
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The Big Data Textbook

Teaching large-scale database in universities

by Ghislain Fourny

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Textbook.M.077.09.1 2024 9 / 1 Big Data On-site use only
Textbook.M.077.09.2 2024 9 / 1 Big Data 31.3.2025 Unavailable
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HBase

The definitive guide

Lars George

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Textbook.M.077.04.1 2011 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.04.2 2011 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.04.3 2011 9 / 1 Big Data Available
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Hadoop

The definitive guide

Tom White

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Textbook.M.077.03.1 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.03.2 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.03.3 2015 9 / 1 Big Data Available
Textbook.M.077.03.5 2015 9 / 1 Big Data 31.3.2025 Unavailable