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NoSQL Vs. Hadoop: Big Data Spotlight At E2

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NoSQL database helped MetLife build in 90 days the kind of consolidated customer view it had dreamed about for nearly 10 years. Similarly, Constant Contact took three months to build a social marketing services app on NoSQL that would have required nine months to build on a conventional database and with higher levels of ongoing admin work.

Stories like these have me thinking that NoSQL databases don't get the credit they deserve as practical workhorses of the big-data revolution. That's just one of the topics I'll discuss in a series of keynotes at the June 17-19 E2 Conference in Boston.

The emphasis of three "fireside chats" on June 18 will be on getting to the business value in big data. Who better to kick off the conversation than John Bungert, the MetLife executive who led the insurer's effort to build a Facebook-Wall-style interface for customer service...

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