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Chapter 8.2: Big Data/Existing System Interface

Fig. 8.2.6 Nonrepetitive data can contain raw data and context enriched data.

In Fig. 8.2.6, it is seen that there is the division of big data into the repetitive and
nonrepetitive sections. However, in the repetitive section, it is seen that when content-
enriched big data is added to the big data environment, those content-enriched data
simply become another type of repetitive data. Stated differently, there are two types of

repetitive data in big data—simple repetitive data and content-enriched repetitive data.

This division becomes important when doing analytic processing. Repetitive data are

analyzed in a completely different fashion than content-enriched repetitive data.

Analyzing Structured Data/Unstructured Data Together

The final interface of interest in the big data environment is those data that have come
from big data either through the distillation process or textual disambiguation. The data
that arrive here can be placed into a standard DBMS.

Fig. 8.2.7 shows the database that has been created from unstructured data being placed
in the same environment as the classical data warehouse. Of course, the data in the

classical data warehouse have been created from structured data entirely.

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