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Databases and the Web. NoSQL Databases and Their Features. Hybrid Databases. Hardware Acceleration for Database Operations. Map-Reduced Architecture. Hadoop Architecture. Database Migration in NoSQL Databases. NoSQL as Bigdata Analytics Tools. Prospects of NoSQL for Bigdata Analytics. Research Trends in Cloud Database.

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