Despite the increasing interest in unstructured data, much of the world's information still lives in some form of relational database. Firing up your first Hadoop cluster often means moving data from existing SQL tables, maybe hosted in SQL Server, MySQL ...
While big data security analytics content varies from discussion to discussion, I consistently come across a lot of misunderstanding around the topic as a whole. This is understandable since “big data” is really a marketing term that the industry has ...
All applications have inherent limits in what they can support. As organizations grow, so do their expectations on the apps they use. Development and operations teams need to plan for large scale from day one — not react to it ...
Enterprises may still not know exactly what value they expect to glean from Big Data, but that hasn't stopped them from spending big money on Big Data skills like Hadoop and NoSQL. According to a 2013 Dice Tech Salary Survey, ...
In its second annual Big Data Insights and Opportunities study, CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry, found that 78 percent of organizations feel more positive about big data as a business initiative than they did last year and ...
The traditional relational database has been the mainstay of IT for decades. It offered a reliable way to store and search for structured data and an easy way to compare different categories of information. While the relational database works great ...
In the age of big data, the world’s most successful companies will be data-driven enterprises. That is to say, data will be hardwired into their decision-making through automated processes that enable them to move with great speed and agility. To ...
In-memory NoSQL datastores such as open source Redis and Memcached are becoming the de-facto standard for every web/mobile application that cares about its user’s experience. Still, large enterprises have struggled to adopt these databases in recent years due to challenges ...
More organizations may be investing in big data projects but few have actually deployed such initiatives. According to a Gartner study released Tuesday, 64 percent of businesses said they were investing or planning to invest in big data technology, up ...
With everyone talking about big data, the need for a big sever to handle the bytes may be necessary. Oracle Corp.’s solution is the “Big Data Machine,” the newest server running its new Sparc M6 processor.
Officially called the M6-32, the ...