Oracle first announced support for big data with its new Big Data Appliance and Oracle NoSQL database at the Open World conference, and was followed by Microsoft which announced Hadoop support for SQL Server 2012.

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Oracle also stated that its Exadata database appliance was seeing wide adoption in enterprises seeing over triple digit unit growth this quarter.

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It also announced its move into Big Data with its new Big Data appliance and the launch of its new Oracle NoSQL database.

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