Splunk Extends Analysis To NoSQL Databases
Splunk Enterprise gets multisite support, improved visualization. Hunk adds analysis for Accumulo, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j.
Splunk keeps rolling along, well ahead of an open-source threat that some thought might flatten it. The company last week sprinted ahead yet again, introducing ...
5 Areas Where Big Data is Doing Well
It's not often that an IT innovation is as disruptive as Big-Data. The tecnology has brought a paradigm shift in our approach, storage, usage and monetization of data assets. Every path-breaking innovation has its share of hype, expectations and "Big ...
5 tips to get started with big data
Everyone seems to be talking about "big data" these days. Do you wonder what you’re missing out on? Let’s take a look at how you can get started with Big Data.
Learn what it is, and what it is not. While ...
6 big data trends in 2014
Data are being generated by every device imaginable. Big data are arriving from multiple sources at an alarming velocity, volume, variety and veracity.
It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day—so much that 90 percent of ...
A New Python Client for Impala
The new Python client for Impala will bring smiles to Pythonistas!
As a data scientist, I love using the Python data stack. I also love using Impala to work with very large data sets. But things that take me out of ...
Will Big Data Analytics Replace BI?
John Leonard of Computing.co.uk recently asked, “In 10 years’ time will big data analytics have replaced traditional relational business intelligence systems? That was one of the questions that Computing asked UK IT decision-makers in the quantitative survey that formed part of our recent big data ...
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 ...
Apache Ambari 1.5.1 is Released!
Apache Ambari community proudly released version 1.5.1. This is the result of constant, concerted collaboration among the Ambari project’s many members. This release represents the work of over 30 individuals over 5 months and, combined with the Ambari 1.5.0 release, ...
How to Run a Simple Apache Spark App in CDH 5
Getting started with Spark (now shipping inside CDH 5) is easy using this simple example.
Apache Spark is a general-purpose, cluster computing framework that, like MapReduce in Apache Hadoop, offers powerful abstractions for processing large datasets. For various reasons pertaining to ...
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 ...