AWS joins Azure and Watson in bringing machine learning to big data
AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) has announced that it will soon offer machine learning as an option to customers.
The technology is the same creepy stuff that uses algorithms to recommend things that you might also like when you browse Mazon's retail ...
Using Hunk with Hadoop and Elastic MapReduce
Hunk is a relatively new product from Splunk for exploring and visualizing Hadoop and other NoSQL data stores. New in this release is support for Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce.Â
Hunk with Hadoop
Hadoop consists of two components, the first being a storage component called HDFS. HDFS can ...
16 NoSQL, NewSQL Databases To Watch
Why are businesses increasingly choosing alternatives to the leading relational database management systems when grappling with new data types and extreme scale?
We put that question to Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company, which is using a NoSQL database, Riak, ...
Cascading 3.0 Future-Proofs Data-Centric Application Development on Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the company behind Cascading, an open source application development framework for building data applications on Hadoop, has announced Cascading 3.0, which CEO Gary Nakamura says will give enterprises the flexibility to build their data-oriented applications on Hadoop once, and ...
Bringing the Best of Apache Hive 0.13 to CDH Users
More than 300 bug fixes and stable features in Apache Hive 0.13 have already been backported into CDH 5.0.0.
Last week, the Hive community voted to release Hive 0.13. We’re excited about the continued efforts and progress in the project and ...
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 ...
A guide to NoSQL offerings
Amazon Web Services: DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that makes it simple and cost-effective to store and retrieve any amount of data and serve any level of request traffic. Users simply tell the service how many requests need to ...
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 ...
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. ...
Types and Examples of NoSQL Databases
NoSQL databases are growing with very rapid speed because of their exciting features like more flexibility and scalability, schema-free architecture, easy replication support, simple API, consistent / BASE (not ACID), support for big data and more.
What is NoSQL database?
NoSQL is ...