Hadoop 101: Top Hadoop Terms You Need to Know
Big data is one of the most trending technologies of the decade. If you know big data, you would have heard about Hadoop. But, if you don’t know Hadoop, you have landed on the right page. Here we will cover ...
Business Intelligence Benchmark for SQL-on-Hadoop Engines
AtScale, provider of BI (Business Intelligence) on Hadoop, has released its study titled "The Business Intelligence Benchmark for SQL-on-Hadoop engines," which is a performance test of BI workloads on Hadoop. The report also studies the strengths and weaknesses of Hive, ...
Top 10 Tips for Scaling Hadoop
Data locality is about making sure a big data set is stored near the compute that performs the analytics. For Hadoop, that means managing DataNodes that provide storage for MapReduce to perform adequately. It works effectively, but leads to the ...
Why is Hadoop the Best Platform for Data Management?
Data management including capturing , storing and analyzing data was very expensive and complicated prior to its management by Hadoop. With the entry of Hadoop in the industry, data management became to handy as well as less expensive.
Hadoop’s processing part ...
5 Steps for Securing Your Data In Hadoop
Data security remains a top concern for data professionals. To help organizations put up a best defense, Reiner Kappenberger, senior executive focused on big data and Hadoop at HPE Seecurity-Data Security offers five steps on how to best secure data ...
Overview of HADOOP from its very Basic till a Career Path
That cute little yellow elephant that often pops up in your window is the symbol of a technology named as Hadoop. This is a java-based programming framework which helps in processing large sets of data. Today with the rise of ...
The Top 5 Hadoop Distributions
A new report by Forrester Research’s big data analysts says that adopting Hadoop is “mandatory” for any organization that wishes to do advanced analytics and get actionable insights on their data.
Forrester estimates that between 60% and 73% of data that ...
6 Major Tips of a Successful Predictive Analytics Project
Over the years we all helped organizations bring predictive analytics modelling in house and have learned a lot along the way. The use of predictive analytics has had a great impact on the company impact, resulting in better business decisions ...
Yahoo Releases record Machine Learning Dataset for Researchers
Data is the lifeblood of research in machine learning. However, access to truly large-scale datasets is a privilege that has been traditionally reserved for machine learning researchers and data scientists working at large companies – and out of reach for ...
Big Data: Managing Wild Weather and Water
By Gaalen Engen and Marc Davis
A state of emergency was declared throughout Washington State in November in response to a series of savage storms that caused three deaths and hundreds of injuries. So catastrophic was the cumulative damage that the ...