This week's assignment is a written piece. Compare three examples from one of the following areas that we discussed:

• Databases (must compare a traditional database, with an analytical database, and a NoSQL database)
• Statistics Packages (including SPSS, SAS, R, MiniTab, and MATLAB)
• API including WEKA, Orange, Statistica, and Hadoop

As part of this assignment, you should describe your selected database, statistics package, and API or development environment and discuss how they are related to each other and how each is used as part of an overall analytics system.

Your paper must be at least 2 pages double spaced using a 12 point font. You must use APA format for this paper, however, you should not provide an abstract and the title page and references page are not included as part of the 2 page requirement. The OWL site at University (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/) provides information and examples on the APA format for a paper that you should review and follow.

Your paper must contain at least 2 references of which at least 1 is scholarly meaning that it is from either a book or a peer-reviewed journal article.