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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. Data in the Cloud
Authors : Richard Hill, Laurie Hirsch, Peter Lake, Siavash Moshiri
Published in: Guide to Cloud Computing
Publisher: Springer London
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Abstract
These days we tend to think only of computer-based databases, but databases have been with us for centuries. The ancient Egyptians stored data on stone tables in columns and rows. More recently, libraries used a card index system to allow users to retrieve an ISBN number from an indexed drawer, full of cards.