Cassandra-Database Solution for modern day applications?

Cassandra is a one stop choice for data driven organizations dealing with real-time Big Data operations for their core functionalities. Now what makes it so dear to the developers and organizations dealing huge databases is a bunch of features that ...

Using Scala To Work With Hadoop

Cloudera has a great toolkit to work with Hadoop.  Specifically it is focused on building distributed systems and services on top of the Hadoop Ecosystem. http://cloudera.github.io/cdk/docs/0.2.0/cdk-data/guide.html And the examples are in Scala!!!! Here is how you you work with generic stuff on the ...

Google Launches BigQuery Streaming For Real-Time, Big-Data Analytics

BigQuery, Google’s cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make it more competitive with the big data service ...

How-to Implement Role-based Security in Impala using Apache Sentry

Apache Sentry (incubating) is the Apache Hadoop ecosystem tool for role-based access control (RBAC). In this how-to, I will demonstrate how to implement Sentry for RBAC in Impala. I feel this introduction is best motivated by a use case. Data warehouse ...

Introduction to Impala

Impala in terms of Hadoop has got the significance because of its, Scalability Flexibility Efficiency What’s Impala? Impala is… Interactive SQL–Impala is typically 5 to 65 times faster than Hive as it minimized the response time to just seconds, not minutes. Nearly ANSI-92 standard and compatible with ...