Predictive Analytics is the Next Growing Sector in Big Data Market
The theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP ...
Five ways to handle Big Data in R
Big data was one of the biggest topics on this year’s useR conference in Albacete and it is definitely one of today’s hottest buzzwords. But what defines “Big Data”? And on the practical side: How can big data be tackled ...
Hadoop Summit North America
The 6th Annual Hadoop Summit, the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community, is coming to San Jose June 26-27. This two-day event will feature many of the Apache Hadoop thought leaders who will showcase successful Hadoop use cases, share ...
Big Data Bootcamp-Santa Clara Jan 24-26, 2014
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Global Big Data Conference is offering 3 day extensive bootcamp on Big Data. This is a fast paced, vendor agnostic, technical overview of the Big Data landscape. No prior knowledge of databases or programming is assumed. Big Data Bootcamp is ...
RDBMS dominate the database market, but NoSQL systems are catching up
Based on the popularity ranking, DB-Engines presents new statistics, which show that relational systems currently totally dominate the database market, but NoSQL systems have a strong upcoming trend.
Since we have already more than 200 different database systems in our ranking, ...
NoSQL, NewSQL and NuoDB
It seems to me that much of the drive behind NoSQL (whether No SQL or Not Only SQL) arose from a rather narrow view of the relational model and technology by web-oriented developers whose experience was constrained by the strengths ...
The 4 Key Pillars of Hadoop Performance and Scalability
The era of Big Data has arrived. Once dismissed as a buzzword, organizations are now recognizing the benefits of capturing and analyzing mountains of information to gain actionable insights that foster innovation and competitive advantage. To that end, open-source Hadoop ...
Should DBAs learn Hadoop?
sqlI’m a DBA with a working knowledge of Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. I have been reading more and more about big data, should I learn Hadoop?
First, thank you for emailing your question. The mere nature of your question tells ...
Hadoop 2 Pushes Big Data Further Into The Mainstream
The Big Data world is on a much firmer footing, as Apache Foundation’s Hadoop version 2 makes the platform more usable for business, and vendors are exploring possibilities to deliver easier-to-use software, according to the founder of the Hadoop movement.
Version ...
Cloudera positions Hadoop as an enterprise data hub
Taking note of how customers have been working with its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has expanded the scope of its software so that it can serve as a hub for all of an organization’s data, not just data undergoing Hadoop MapReduce ...