BigDataFr recommends: How big data is changing the game for backup and recovery

It’s a well-known fact in the IT world: Change one part of the software stack, and there’s a good chance you’ll have to change another. For a shining example, look no further than big data.

First, big data shook up the database arena, ushering in a new class of « scale out » technologies. That’s the model exemplified by products like Hadoop, MongoDB, and Cassandra, where data is distributed across multiple commodity servers rather than packed into one massive one.[…]