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Facebook Invented Some Cool Big Data Software And Just Gave It Away For Free (FB)

Say what you want about Facebook's war on privacy, there is one thing the company is doing that deserves kudos. It is inventing a whole bunch of technology and giving it away for free. Today Facebook said it's releasing software called "Presto" as a free and open source project. Presto allows people to ask questions (in geek speak called "queries") of huge databases and get the answers back immediately, not hours or days later).

 

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