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 ...
How Accurate is Mahout for Summing Numbers?
A question was recently posted on the Mahout mailing list suggesting that the Mahout math library was "unwashed" because it didn't use Kahan summation. My feeling is that this complaint is not founded and Mahout is considerably more washed than ...
Google BigQuery and Datastore Connectors for Hadoop
Users of Google’s cloud platform should find it easier to run Hadoop jobs directly against data in Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Datastore from now on.
we are making it easier for you to run Hadoop jobs directly against your data ...
Top 30 Big Data Companies to watch in 2023
. The Big Data space is heating up – to the point that many pundits already see it as the over-hyped heir to "cloud." The hype may be a bit much, but Big Data is already living up to its ...
Top 7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data
Today all the businesses are focusing and investing on big data Analytics to offer reliable services and to get profits. Big data is playing vital role in making the better business decisions by enabling data scientists and other users to ...
10 Big Data Predictions for 2014
Big data was seen as one of the biggest buzzwords of 2013 and companies are spending a lot on Big data analytics. The storage and analysis of large and/or complex data sets using a series of techniques including, but not ...
Using Scala To Work With Hadoop
Cloudera has a great toolkit to work with Hadoop. Specifically it is focused on building distributed systems and services on top of the Hadoop Ecosystem.
http://cloudera.github.io/cdk/docs/0.2.0/cdk-data/guide.html
And the examples are in Scala!!!!
Here is how you you work with generic stuff on the ...
MongoDB 2.6 Released
In the five years since the initial release of MongoDB, and after hundreds of thousands of deployments, we have learned a lot. The time has come to take everything we have learned and create a basis for continued innovation over ...
How To Choose The Best Tool For Your Big Data Project
By Angus Kidman
Trying to choose the right tool for a big data project? This chart (and three simple rules) can help guide you through the options.
This chart is based on one shown by Microsoft Research senior research program manager Wenming ...
MariaDB adds NoSQL features to relational database roots
SkySQL has released new versions of MariaDB Enterprise and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster, promising that these editions will combine the consistency of traditional SQL database technology with the scalability of NoSQL.
It’s now almost a year since SkySQL merged with Monty Program, ...