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Mastering MongoDB 3.x

You're reading from   Mastering MongoDB 3.x An expert's guide to building fault-tolerant MongoDB applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783982608
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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What is big data?

The internet has grown over the last few years and is not showing any signs of slowing down. Just in the last five years, internet users have grown from a little under 2 billion to around 3.7 billion, accounting for 50% of Earth's total population (up from 30% just 5 years ago).

With more internet users and networks evolving, every year adds increasingly more data to existing datasets. In 2016, global internet traffic was 1.2 zettabytes (which is 1.2 billion terabytes) and it is expected to grow to 3.3 zettabytes by 2021.

This enormous amount of data generates increased needs for processing and analysis. This has generated the need for databases and data stores in general that can scale and efficiently process our data.

The term big data was first coined in the 1980's by John Mashey and mostly came into play in the past decade with the explosive growth...

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