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Chapter 8.2: Big Data/Existing System Interface

Fig. 8.2.7 The analytical environment can encompass both classical structured
data and data whose origins are unstructured.

Fig. 8.2.7 shows that data whose origin is quite different can be placed in the same
analytic environment. The DBMS may be oracle or Teradata. The operating system may
be Windows or Linux. In any case, doing analytic processing against the two databases is
as easy as doing a relational join.

In such a manner, it is easy and natural to do analytic processing against data from the
two different environments. This means that structured data and unstructured data can be
used together analytically.

By combining these two types of data together, entirely new vistas of analytic processing
open up.

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