There may be a piece of the future in a new Google research paper published earlier this month. It describes a tool capable of processing a trillion pieces of information with a single mouse click. According to the paper, this tool is 10 to 100 times faster than traditional databases that afford similar types of information analysis.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-trillion-pieces-of-data/
