Both SAP's and Oracle's in-memory solutions are designed to analyze what is now being termed "big data.". What is "big data" and what are the needs of "big data?"
Big data refers to the enormous amount of data that is now available for BI use from all the available sources, including ERP systems, Web sites, corporate databases, scientific research, Twitter, and other social networking applications. Big data needs fast computing to be usable, and in-memory computing allows for rapid processing.
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