Hadoop gets native R programming for big data analysis
Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data processing platform.
Revolution R Enterprise 7 (RRE 7), to be made ...
Top 10 big data stories of 2013
Big data. Anyone sick of it yet? Not the technology: the pulling together and cross-matching of disparate data on a massive scale is arguably producing more social, commercial and political change than any other innovation over the last couple of ...
Facebook turns to machine learning
Do you know anything about machine learning? Credit: newyork
Move fast and break things." That is the Facebook motto plastered all over their California headquarters to remind engineers never to stop innovating. This week, the company moved fast and broke ...
HP’s Earth Insights deploys big data tech against eco threats
HP has turned its Vertica big data technology to the task of helping ecologists detect risks to threatened species.
The company announced HP Earth Insights on Tuesday, a joint project with non-governmental organisation Conservation International designed to speed up the analysis ...
Pivotal partners with Capgemimi on Big Data
IT consultancy joins Pivotal party to help both firms make sense of big data.
EMC’s “billion dollar start-up” Pivotal has teamed with IT consultancy Capgemini to support the development of its big data offerings.
The firms said the partnership would bring together ...
Predictive Analytics is the Next Growing Sector in Big Data Market
The theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP ...
RDBMS dominate the database market, but NoSQL systems are catching up
Based on the popularity ranking, DB-Engines presents new statistics, which show that relational systems currently totally dominate the database market, but NoSQL systems have a strong upcoming trend.
Since we have already more than 200 different database systems in our ranking, ...
NoSQL, NewSQL and NuoDB
It seems to me that much of the drive behind NoSQL (whether No SQL or Not Only SQL) arose from a rather narrow view of the relational model and technology by web-oriented developers whose experience was constrained by the strengths ...
Hadoop 2 Pushes Big Data Further Into The Mainstream
The Big Data world is on a much firmer footing, as Apache Foundation’s Hadoop version 2 makes the platform more usable for business, and vendors are exploring possibilities to deliver easier-to-use software, according to the founder of the Hadoop movement.
Version ...
How Big Data can Help Marketers Cater to an International Audience
We live in an international market, but the art of catering to multiple cultures has yet to be perfected and for good reason. There are multiple barriers when it comes to catering to an international audience. Identifying a market need, ...