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What is Httpd

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Handbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications
Httpd is the Apache Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. It is designed to be run as standalone daemon process. Httpd should not be invoked directly, but rather should be invoked via apachacti on Unix-based systems, or as a service on Windows NT, 2000 and XP and as a console application on Windows 9x and ME. Httpd stands for “Http daemon”, a software program that runs in the background of a Web server and waits for incoming server requests. The daemon answers the requests automatically and serves the hypertext and multimedia documents over the Internet using Http.
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NoSQL Databases
Mainak Adhikari (IMPS College of Engineering and Technology, India) and Sukhendu Kar (IMPS College of Engineering and Technology, India)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 44
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6559-0.ch006
Abstract
NoSQL database provides a mechanism for storage and access of data across multiple storage clusters. NoSQL dabases are finding significant and growing industry to meet the huge data storage requirements of Big data, real time applications, and Cloud Computing. NoSQL databases have lots of advantages over the conventional RDBMS features. NoSQL systems are also referred to as “Not only SQL” to emphasize that they may in fact allow Structured language like SQL, and additionally, they allow Semi Structured as well as Unstructured language. A variety of NoSQL databases having different features to deal with exponentially growing data intensive applications are available with open source and proprietary option mostly prompted and used by social networking sites. This chapter discusses some features and challenges of NoSQL databases and some of the popular NoSQL databases with their features on the light of CAP theorem.
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