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  2. Bigtable - Wikipedia

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    Each cell of a bigtable can have zero or more timestamped versions of the data. Another function of the timestamp is to allow for both versioning and garbage collection of expired data. Tables are split into multiple tablets – segments of the table are split at certain row keys so that each tablet is a few hundred megabytes or a few gigabytes ...

  3. Data store - Wikipedia

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    Data store can refer to a broad class of storage systems including: Paper files; Simple files like a spreadsheet; File systems; Email storage systems (both server and client systems) Databases. Relational databases, based on the relational model of data; Object-oriented databases. They can save objects of an object-oriented design. NoSQL ...

  4. Import and export of data - Wikipedia

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    The import and export of data is the automated or semi-automated input and output of data sets between different software applications.It involves "translating" from the format used in one application into that used by another, where such translation is accomplished automatically via machine processes, such as transcoding, data transformation, and others.

  5. Database index - Wikipedia

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    A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the index data structure. Indexes are used to quickly locate data without having to search every row in a database table every time said table is accessed.

  6. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    Example of a spreadsheet holding data about a group of audio tracks. A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. [1] [2] [3] Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. [4] The program operates on data entered in cells of a table.

  7. Online analytical processing - Wikipedia

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    The base data and the dimension tables are stored as relational tables and new tables are created to hold the aggregated information. It depends on a specialized schema design. This methodology relies on manipulating the data stored in the relational database to give the appearance of traditional OLAP's slicing and dicing functionality.

  8. Relational database - Wikipedia

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    Present the data to the user as relations (a presentation in tabular form, i.e. as a collection of tables with each table consisting of a set of rows and columns); Provide relational operators to manipulate the data in tabular form. In 1974, IBM began developing System R, a research project to develop a prototype RDBMS.

  9. Pivot table - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Microsoft Excel one must first select the entire data in the original table and then go to the Insert tab and select "Pivot Table" (or "Pivot Chart"). The user then has the option of either inserting the pivot table into an existing sheet or creating a new sheet to house the pivot table.