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Some facts about data:
Hardware gets cheaper
Data is valuabe
Open source wins
Hadoop gets better
Hadoop is general
Hadoop dominates big data (de facto operating system for big data)
Even transactions are possible on Hadoop
The future of data is Hadoop
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