The Wide Range of Different Big Data Technologies
Many of the latest big data technologies are developed by big data startups from around the world that have found a way to deal with the vast amounts of data. They have developed disruptive big data technology that can be ...
YarcData Announces Major Update to NoSQL Engine
YarcData, a NoSQL data engine vendor subsidiary of Cray Inc., has announced a major upgrade to its Urika Big Data analytics appliance, based on graph analytics. It also announced alliances with BI tools vendors Centrifuge Systems and TIBCO as well ...
Math matters-how big data is building the future of everything
New materials lead to new innovations. Gorilla Glass is a big selling point for smartphones. Kevlar saves lives and has worked its way into consumer products. Lithium-ion batteries have enabled a host of energy-storage applications, from planes to cars to ...
Cloudera and Syncsort partner to offload mainframe data to Hadoop
Software vendor Syncsort has partnered with Cloudera, provider of one of the most popular distributions of Apache Hadoop, to create a solution for customers who want to apply Hadoop-based analytics to data that sits on mainframes.
According to Syncsort, mainframes host ...
Big Data Developers Fear Government Snooping
The level of concern within the developer community prompted by the recent government snooping revelations has been revealed in a new survey. It revealed that nearly four out of 10 (or 39 percent of) developers working with big data applications ...
3 Ways to Move SQL into Hadoop Faster
Despite the increasing interest in unstructured data, much of the world's information still lives in some form of relational database. Firing up your first Hadoop cluster often means moving data from existing SQL tables, maybe hosted in SQL Server, MySQL ...
Big Data Security Analytics FAQ
While big data security analytics content varies from discussion to discussion, I consistently come across a lot of misunderstanding around the topic as a whole. This is understandable since “big data” is really a marketing term that the industry has ...
Planning for scale with Enterprise NoSQL
All applications have inherent limits in what they can support. As organizations grow, so do their expectations on the apps they use. Development and operations teams need to plan for large scale from day one — not react to it ...
Enterprises Confident About Tackling Big Data Initiatives
In its second annual Big Data Insights and Opportunities study, CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry, found that 78 percent of organizations feel more positive about big data as a business initiative than they did last year and ...
5 Insights Your Traditional Data Won’t Tell You
The traditional relational database has been the mainstay of IT for decades. It offered a reliable way to store and search for structured data and an easy way to compare different categories of information. While the relational database works great ...