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 technologies that will help big data cross the chasm
We’re on the cusp of a real turning point for big data. Its applications are becoming clearer, its tools are getting easier and its architectures are maturing in a hurry. It’s no longer just about log files, clickstreams and tweets. ...
5 tips to get started with big data
Everyone seems to be talking about "big data" these days. Do you wonder what you’re missing out on? Let’s take a look at how you can get started with Big Data.
Learn what it is, and what it is not. While ...
6 big data trends in 2014
Data are being generated by every device imaginable. Big data are arriving from multiple sources at an alarming velocity, volume, variety and veracity.
It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day—so much that 90 percent of ...
Will Big Data Analytics Replace BI?
John Leonard of Computing.co.uk recently asked, “In 10 years’ time will big data analytics have replaced traditional relational business intelligence systems? That was one of the questions that Computing asked UK IT decision-makers in the quantitative survey that formed part of our recent big data ...
10 Hadoop Hardware Leaders
Hadoop software is designed to orchestrate massively parallel processing on relatively low-cost servers that pack plenty of storage close to the processing power. All the power, reliability, redundancy, and fault tolerance is built into the software, which distributes the data ...
Using Apache Hadoop and Impala together with MySQL for data analysis
Apache Hadoop is commonly used for data analysis. It is fast for data loads and scalable. In a previous post I showed how to integrate MySQL with Hadoop. In this post I will show how to export a table from ...
Hadoop or Warehousing, or Both?
One of the thornier questions facing enterprise executives in these days of broad infrastructural change is how to deal with Big Data. On the surface, it may seem like a no-brainer: No matter how big the data load becomes, there ...
How Accurate is Mahout for Summing Numbers?
A question was recently posted on the Mahout mailing list suggesting that the Mahout math library was "unwashed" because it didn't use Kahan summation. Â My feeling is that this complaint is not founded and Mahout is considerably more washed than ...
Google BigQuery and Datastore Connectors for Hadoop
Users of Google’s cloud platform should find it easier to run Hadoop jobs directly against data in Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Datastore from now on.
we are making it easier for you to run Hadoop jobs directly against your data ...