9127 - World’s largest biometrics database leverages Big Data architecture - Biometric Update

A recent news report in Forbes has revealed that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) uses MapR products to build, manage and maintain India’s Aadhaar citizen registry.

MapR-DB is an enterprise-grade NoSQL database in Hadoop that allows enterprises to run operational and analytical workloads together in a single cluster. Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and distributed processing of very large data sets on computer clusters built from commodity hardware. All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that hardware failures of individual machines, or racks of machines are commonplace and thus should be automatically handled in software by the framework.

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