A contraction of informatiemathematica ("information mathematics" wink , possibly via the cognate French informatique, also mdm master data management hub architecture cognate with Italian informatica, English informatics, German Informatika etc.
The discipline computer science, information science, informatics, study of computers and computing
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Big data refers to a process that is used when traditional data mining and handling techniques cannot uncover the insights and meaning of the underlying data. Data that is unstructured or time sensitive or simply very large cannot be processed by relational database engines. This type of data requires a different processing approach called big data, which uses massive parallelism on readily-available hardware.
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