NoSQL Predictions for 2026
By 2026, key predictions for the NoSQL landscape point to deeper integration with AI and machine learning, strong market expansion, and a growing focus on hybrid data models that blend the flexibility of NoSQL with the reliability and analytical strengths ...
Data Science –What’s the big deal about it?
Thomas Davenport, an American academic and publisher for Harvard Business Review, once said that Data Scientist is “the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”. But why is there such a big hype and mythos about Data Scientists and Data Science?
The ...
Enjoy machine learning with Mahout on Hadoop
"Mahout" is a Hindi term for a person who rides an elephant. The elephant, in this case, is Hadoop -- and Mahout is one of the many projects that can sit on top of Hadoop, although you do not always ...
7 Golden Rules for Big Data Projects
It seems every organisation has either jumped or is seriously contemplating jumping onto the Big Data bandwagon. In an industry where the hype is often followed by the despair, I feel somewhat ashamed that the IT Industry that I work ...
Couchbase NoSQL Database Goes Mobile
NoSQL database vendor Couchbase Inc. is seeking to let developers build always-available, data-driven apps for mobile users wherever they are, even when they don't have connectivity to the cloud.
The Couchbase Mobile suite was released yesterday, featuring three components, including an ...
Splunk’s Hunk 6.1enables faster analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores
Splunk Inc. announced version 6.1 of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores. Hunk 6.1 makes it even faster and easier to turn raw, unstructured data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores into business insights. Accelerated reports in ...
5 technologies that will help big data cross the chasm
We’re on the cusp of a real turning point for big data. Its applications are becoming clearer, its tools are getting easier and its architectures are maturing in a hurry. It’s no longer just about log files, clickstreams and tweets. ...
Snappy compression with Pig and native MapReduce
Assuming you have installed Hadoop on your cluster, if not please follow http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-snappy/
This is the machine config of my cluster nodes, though the steps that follow could be followed with your installation/machine configs
pkommireddi@pkommireddi-wsl:/tools/hadoop/pig-0.9.1/lib$ uname -a
Linux pkommireddi-wsl 2.6.32-37-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP Fri ...
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 ...