A theory about the fundamental building blocks of nature, which can predict the behavior of very small things like photons and electrons. Quantum TheoryOctober 11, 2015 in Physics tagged quantum physics / en by homosapien
Databases which aggregate the information vertically (e.g. names, ages, photos) instead of horizontally (e.g. user1, user2, user3...). Column-Oriented DBOctober 10, 2015 in Computer Science tagged Big Data / Column DB / NoSQL / en by homosapien
You can't have a distributed system which remains both consistent and available during partitions (network problems). CAP theoremOctober 9, 2015 in Computer Science tagged Big Data / CAP / en by homosapien