First Hadoop Search Engine Launched By Cloudera
Real-time search for open source projects using Hadoop and Apache HBase. Cloudera has announced the general availability of Cloudera Search and an accompanying add-on RTS (Real-time Search) subscription. This product represents the first fully integrated search engine for interactive exploration ...
SAP to buy KXEN to widen appeal of big data analytics
Enterprise software giant SAP says it's buying predictive-analytics firm KXEN to increase use of its own big-data analysis tools among ordinary business staff by adding more automation.
The planned acquisition for an undisclosed sum will allow SAP to absorb KXEN's "powerful ...
NSA’s big data efforts need transparency, privacy
Recent revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s massive data collection programs illustrates the need for a new privacy debate about the implications of big data, some privacy advocates said Tuesday.
The increasing uses of big data in all kinds of ...
Big data can lead to effective business process reformation
If there is an oft-cited and "classic" example of big data use, it's the story of an enterprise that capitalizes on parsing and analyzing unstructured and semi-structured data about its customers from the Internet and other data sources that formerly ...
9 Truths Lead To Big Data’s Future
Now and then I find myself thinking about the big principles of big data; that is, not about Hadoop vs. relational databases or Mahout vs. Weka, but rather about fundamental wisdom that frames our vision of "the new currency" of ...
6 Trends That Go Beyond the Buzz of Big Data
It seems that there's as much substance as there is hype around Big Data. According to the study “Big Data Executive Survey 2013: The State of Big Data in the Large Corporate World,” by consultancy and analyst firm NewVantage Partners, ...
Big Data Opens New Doors For Financial Analysts
Big data is changing how lot of businesses operate, especially in the healthcare, industrial, and retail sectors, to name just a few. Finance is another area where big data is making its mark, as emerging technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL ...
PostgreSQL-The Other big open-source database has a new release
When you think about open-source database management systems (DBMS), you probably think about Oracle's MySQL and its great rival/fork MariaDB. That's thinking too small. There's another great, enterprise capable DBMS, PostgreSQL, and its latest, greatest release PostgreSQL 9.3, has just ...
Tableau and Syncsort Partner to Collapse Data Silos into Hadoop
Tableau and Syncsort announced this week that they have entered a strategic partnership to make siloed information more consumable for data-driven enterprises.
Syncsort sells ETL software that helps organizations import data from mainframes and other legacy platforms into Hadoop. Tableau in ...
Is Little Data The Next Big Data?
Is personal quantification the next evolution of the Big Data revolution? And is our addiction to analytics leading us astray?
Three weeks ago, at approximately 10:32pm, Nike made me hit my dog in the face. Now before the ASPCA starts calling, ...