Streamline Big Data Analysis …With A Spreadsheet? 4 Transformations Made Easy
Data analysis is an essential part of most big data projects, and story-telling is a critical component of this process. In recent years, developers have created sophisticated tools to make the job of analyzing big data easier. Popular open-source tools ...
Observability Vs Monitoring – Understanding The Difference
The past few years have seen an increased reliance on distributed architectures by businesses the world over. This has made observability and monitoring very important especially when it comes to the success of these architectures.
Businesses need to identify any issues ...
Big Data Compression- How Businesses Can Make It Simpler
Over the years, Big Data and Analytics have emerged as a key business technology. Today, organizations rely greatly on information for insights that have the potential to drive smarter decisions. Businesses generate data every day and wouldn’t want to miss ...
MapReduce for C: Run Native Code in Hadoop
Google announced the release of MapReduce for C (MR4C), an open source framework that allows you to run native code in Hadoop.
MR4C was originally developed at Skybox Imaging to facilitate large scale satellite image processing and geospatial data science. We ...
40 Best Data Visualization Tools and Software list for 2025
Data visualizations are everywhere today. From creating a visual representation of data points to impress potential investors, report on progress, or even visualize concepts for customer segments, data visualizations are a valuable tool in a variety of settings. When it ...
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 ...
Updated PostgreSQL targets NoSQL market
Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB.
The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4, released Thursday, includes a ...
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 ...
A guide to NoSQL offerings
Amazon Web Services: DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that makes it simple and cost-effective to store and retrieve any amount of data and serve any level of request traffic. Users simply tell the service how many requests need to ...
MongoDB vs CouchDB-Open Source NoSQL and Document Databases Comparison
MongoDB and CouchDB are both document-oriented databases. MongoDB and CouchDB are the best examples of open source NoSQL database. Aside from both storing documents though, it turns out that they don't share much in common. There are a lot of ...