MongoDB Interview Questions
What were you trying to solve when you created MongoDB?
We were and are trying to build the database that we always wanted as developers. For pure reporting, SQL and relational is nice, but when building data always wanted something different: ...
The 3 most common ways data junkies are using Hadoop
Just a few weeks ago, Apache Hadoop 2.0 was declared generally available–a huge milestone for the Hadoop market as it unlocks the vision of interacting with stored data in unprecedented ways. Hadoop remains the typical underpinning technology of “Big Data,” ...
A Quick Guide To Choosing The Right Way To Use Hadoop
By Dan Woods, The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop distributions are created ...
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 ...
Managing Multiple Resources in Hadoop 2 with YARN
An overview of Cloudera’s contributions to YARN that help support management of multiple resources, from multi-resource scheduling to node-level enforcement
As Apache Hadoop become ubiquitous, it is becoming more common for users to run diverse sets of workloads on Hadoop, and ...
Five ways to handle Big Data in R
Big data was one of the biggest topics on this year’s useR conference in Albacete and it is definitely one of today’s hottest buzzwords. But what defines “Big Data”? And on the practical side: How can big data be tackled ...
Cloudera positions Hadoop as an enterprise data hub
Taking note of how customers have been working with its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has expanded the scope of its software so that it can serve as a hub for all of an organization’s data, not just data undergoing Hadoop MapReduce ...
HP’s big data platform tends to digital marketing
Hewlett-Packard has assembled a number of its data-mining software programs into a service, called the HP Digital Marketing Hub, that can synthesize multiple sources of marketing data to help organizations better identify potential customers.
“The number one thing marketers are struggling ...
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 ...
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 ...