The new Reality-Data Warehouse And Big Data:Modernizing a Traditional BI Concept
Stefan MĂĽller, Director Business Intelligence & Big Data, it-novum
Big Data seems to have rendered the traditional data warehouse concept obsolete, being too slow, not flexible enough and having poor analytics. However, this article shows that – implemented in in the ...
An introduction to Apache Hadoop for big data
Apache Hadoop is an open source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop is an Apache top-level project being built and used by a global community of contributors and users. It ...
6 sparkling features of Apache Spark!
What is Apache Spark? Why there is a serious buzz going-on about this? If you are into BigData analytics business then, should you really care about Spark? Hope this post will help to answer some of these questions which might have ...
Top 10 worst big data practices
1. Choosing MongoDB as your big data platform. Why am I picking on MongoDB? I'm not, but for whatever reason, the NoSQL database most abused at this point is MongoDB. While MongoDB has an aggregation framework that tastes like MapReduce ...
Why Extended Attributes are Coming to HDFS
Extended attributes in HDFS will facilitate at-rest encryption for Project Rhino, but they have many other uses, too.
Many mainstream Linux filesystems implement extended attributes, which let you associate metadata with a file or directory beyond common “fixed” attributes like filesize, ...
VMware Updates Big Data Extensions with Hadoop 2 Support
VMware Inc. updated its Big Data Extensions (BDE) for its vSphere virtualization platform, including support for Hadoop 2.
BDE's set of integrated management tools -- built into vSphere -- help organizations deploy, run and manage Hadoop. With BDE, vSphere users can ...
12 Very Important Tools For Hadoop Users
When it comes to Big Data analysis, Hadoop is at the forefront of things. Almost every company worth mentioning is looking for people specialised in Hadoop. These tools manage various aspects of big data analysis using Hadoop.
1. Ambari
The Apache Ambari ...
Actian, HP Vertica Join SQL-On-Hadoop Bandwagon
Actian on Tuesday joined the long list of companies that have introduced a way to support SQL access and querying on top of Hadoop. The announcement comes just a week after HP upgraded SQL-on-Hadoop functionality it introduced late last year ...
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 Facts About Hadoop That You Should Know
Where there is Big Data, there is Hadoop and vice versa. With Big Data analytics becoming as big as they have, Hadoop has become a mainstay in the technology industry.
Hereare a few facts that you should keep in mind when ...