Cassandra-Database Solution for modern day applications?
Cassandra is a one stop choice for data driven organizations dealing with real-time Big Data operations for their core functionalities. Now what makes it so dear to the developers and organizations dealing huge databases is a bunch of features that ...
Top 7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data
Today all the businesses are focusing and investing on big data Analytics to offer reliable services and to get profits. Big data is playing vital role in making the better business decisions by enabling data scientists and other users to ...
10 Big Data Predictions for 2014
Big data was seen as one of the biggest buzzwords of 2013 and companies are spending a lot on Big data analytics. The storage and analysis of large and/or complex data sets using a series of techniques including, but not ...
MariaDB adds NoSQL features to relational database roots
SkySQL has released new versions of MariaDB Enterprise and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster, promising that these editions will combine the consistency of traditional SQL database technology with the scalability of NoSQL.
It’s now almost a year since SkySQL merged with Monty Program, ...
Google Launches BigQuery Streaming For Real-Time, Big-Data Analytics
BigQuery, Google’s cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make it more competitive with the big data service ...
What Can GPFS on Hadoop Do For You?
The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, IBM has been talking up the benefits of hooking Hadoop up to the General Parallel File System (GPFS). IBM has ...
Hadoop Alternative Hydra Re-Spawns as Open Source
It may not have the name recognition or momentum of Hadoop. But Hydra, the distributed task processing system first developed six years ago by the social bookmarking service maker AddThis, is now available under an open source Apache license, just ...
Hadoop and NoSQL Now Data Warehouse-Worthy-Gartner
Not long ago, the rules for what constituted a data warehouse were fairly well defined. The schema was fixed, you could say, and was based primarily on relational database technology designed to process structured data. My, how times have changed. ...
Avoiding Split Brainedness in HA Hadoop Clusters
The US Patent Office recently granted Zettaset a patent for the underlying technology in its Hadoop high availability that prevents a "split-brain" situation where multiple master nodes think they're in control of the Hadoop cluster. It's a feather in the ...
Big Workflow-The Future of Big Data Computing
How can organizations embrace — instead of brace for — the rapidly intensifying collision of public and private clouds, HPC environments and Big Data? The current go-to solution for many organizations is to run these technology assets in siloed, specialized ...