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              <h1>real-time big data security </h1>
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        <h2>Evolution</h2>
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            <h2>Architecture</h2>
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                                <h5 class="bold blue-text">Multi-vendor Sensor Support</h5>
                                <h6>Supports events ingestion from a variety of sources</h6>
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                                <h5 class="bold blue-text">Leverages the Apache Big Data Ecosystem</h5>
                                <h6>Jump to the right row with indexes including minimum, maximum, and bloom filters for each column.</h6>
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                                <h5 class="bold blue-text">Interactive Visualization and alerting</h5>
                                <h6>Visualize alerts and notify parties involved</h6>
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        <h2>Core Capabilities</h2>
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        <h2>License</h2>
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        Metron is distributed under <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" target="new">Apache License</a>
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