Conventional database technologies often choke when trying to sift through the massive amounts of data collected by many of today's firms, leading to the rise of hadoop and other "big data" technologies. true false

true

Explanation:

The Hadoop software developed by Apache Technologies is an open source software library that allows the processing of big data across computers using  a programming model. It was designed to facilitate the handling of big data from single servers to thousands of computers.

Most companies cannot afford to invest millions in computer hardware in order to support all their big data, so they have use Hadoop or similar software to handle it (it is cheaper this way).

1: b     the use of non-standard grammar

2: c     strong and willful.

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d,