Data Lake Showdown: Object Store or HDFS?

The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the distributed system–be it a file-based system like ...

4 Considerations When Choosing a Hadoop Distribution

Choosing the right Hadoop distribution can be a tricky process. Many businesses looking to adopt Hadoop in their data infrastructure have a hard time figuring out what really differentiates one distribution from another. With so many options available, it’s easy ...

LinkedIn fills another SQL-on-Hadoop niche

Social networks generate colossal amounts of data that have come to defy the use of conventional data-processing tools, so it's no wonder their engineering teams have built their own toolsets -- such as Facebook and its machine-learning tools. Enter LinkedIn, now ...

7 Ways to Get Ready for the Big Data of the Future

Data science is in the midst of transformation, with Big Data technologies starting to significantly encroach on the market share of traditional RDBMSs (relational database management systems). Spending worldwide on Big Data is forecast to hit $114 billion by 2018, ...

9 Questions to Ask Before Kicking off any Big Data Project

What do you get when you combine rebranded analytics systems, a minefield of consultants turned “big data experts,” and insanely expensive “big data servers” that look suspiciously similar to commodity machines? You get: the most complicated space for any business or ...

Apache Parquet paves the way for better Hadoop data storage

Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem. Already adopted by Netflix and Twitter, Parquet began in 2013 as a ...

5 NoSQL Predictions for 2015

2014 has been another interesting year in Big Data with long-awaited IPOs, massive fund-raising and increased awareness around the data management market. So, what does this mean for the future of Enterprise NoSQL and the impact on enterprises across industries ...

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 ...

The State of the Data Warehouse

Today Snowflake Computing, the cloud-based data warehouse company, released a new report commissioned by Dimensional Research. The study is a national survey of more than 315 technology and analytics professionals with responsibility for corporate data initiatives. One of the key findings ...
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