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 ...
Top 30 Big Data Companies to watch in 2025
. The Big Data space is heating up – to the point that many pundits already see it as the over-hyped heir to "cloud." The hype may be a bit much, but Big Data is already living up to its ...
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 ...
Apache Spark is now part of MapR’s Hadoop distribution
Hadoop vendor MapR is getting in early on the Apache Spark action, too, announcing on Thursday that it’s adding the Spark stack to its Hadoop distribution as part of a partnership with Spark startup Databricks (Ion Stoica, the co-founder and CEO of ...
Using Scala To Work With Hadoop
Cloudera has a great toolkit to work with Hadoop. Â Specifically it is focused on building distributed systems and services on top of the Hadoop Ecosystem.
http://cloudera.github.io/cdk/docs/0.2.0/cdk-data/guide.html
And the examples are in Scala!!!!
Here is how you you work with generic stuff on the ...
MongoDB 2.6 Released
In the five years since the initial release of MongoDB, and after hundreds of thousands of deployments, we have learned a lot. The time has come to take everything we have learned and create a basis for continued innovation over ...
How To Choose The Best Tool For Your Big Data Project
Trying to choose the right tool for a big data project? This chart (and three simple rules) can help guide you through the options. This chart is based on one shown by Microsoft Research senior research program manager Wenming Ye ...
10 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT
Big data means a lot of things to a lot of different people, but what is becoming increasingly clear as the largest market players strategies start to unfold, big data is about real-time analysis and data driven decision-making. Now Big ...