Big data and its technical challenges

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 86-94

  Jagadish, H V ^a   Gehrke, Johannes ^b   Labrinidis, Alexandros ^c,d   Papakonstantinou, Yannis ^e   Patel, Jignesh M ^f   Ramakrishnan, Raghu ^g   Shahabi, Cyrus ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^d Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g MICROSOFT   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84901792094     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2611567     Document Type: Review

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