7 Golden Rules for Big Data Projects
It seems every organisation has either jumped or is seriously contemplating jumping onto the Big Data bandwagon. In an industry where the hype is often followed by the despair, I feel somewhat ashamed that the IT Industry that I work ...
Couchbase NoSQL Database Goes Mobile
NoSQL database vendor Couchbase Inc. is seeking to let developers build always-available, data-driven apps for mobile users wherever they are, even when they don't have connectivity to the cloud.
The Couchbase Mobile suite was released yesterday, featuring three components, including an ...
Hadoop RDBMS Announced
A database that combines Hadoop and traditional relational abilities has been released as a public beta by Splice Machine.
The company says the database provides the scale-out technology of Hadoop, the distributed real-time computing power of the key-value store HBase, and ...
Updated PostgreSQL targets NoSQL market
Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB.
The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4, released Thursday, includes a ...
Splunk Extends Analysis To NoSQL Databases
Splunk Enterprise gets multisite support, improved visualization. Hunk adds analysis for Accumulo, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j.
Splunk keeps rolling along, well ahead of an open-source threat that some thought might flatten it. The company last week sprinted ahead yet again, introducing ...
Cascading 3.0 Future-Proofs Data-Centric Application Development on Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the company behindĀ Cascading, an open source application development framework for building data applications on Hadoop, has announced Cascading 3.0, which CEO Gary Nakamura says will give enterprises the flexibility to build their data-oriented applications on Hadoop once, and ...
5 Areas Where Big Data is Doing Well
It's not often that an IT innovation is as disruptive as Big-Data. The tecnology has brought a paradigm shift in our approach, storage, usage and monetization of data assets. Every path-breaking innovation has its share of hype, expectations and "Big ...
Splunkās Hunk 6.1enables faster analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores
Splunk Inc. announcedĀ version 6.1 of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores. Hunk 6.1 makes it even faster and easier to turn raw, unstructured data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores into business insights. Accelerated reports in ...
5 Big Data Use Cases To Watch
We hear a lot about big data's ability to deliver usable insights -- but what does this mean exactly?
It's often unclear how enterprises are using big-data technologies beyond proof-of-concept projects. Some of this might be a byproduct of corporate secrecy. ...
5 tips to get started with big data
Everyone seems to be talking about "big data" these days. Do you wonder what youāre missing out on? Letās take a look at how you can get started with Big Data.
Learn what it is, and what it is not. While ...