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An Open Source Implementation And Evaluation Of A Federated Searching Service Based On File Based Index And Relational Database Index, Alan Liu

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One of the greatest challenges in the modern information world is the storage of data and the ability to extract usable knowledge from it, to enable enterprises to gain insight that can be leverage to succeed in the competitive environment. Data is constantly being generated and collected at a rapid pace from users and customers via many sources such as intranet, internet and other smart devices. To effectively use the collected data, knowledge must be extracted from it to allow effective and efficient business planning. While the core challenge of data analytics is to extract hidden non-trivial information form large …