7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives
We know that big data is changing the way we live and work. It is changing societies and changing businesses. On this platform we have included many best practices that show concrete example of how this is happening. To illustrate ...
Hadoop still too slow for real-time analysis applications?
With all the buzz that Hadoop is generating in IT circles these days, it's easy to start thinking that the open source distributed processing framework can handle just about anything in big data environments. But real-time analysis involving ad hoc ...
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 ...
The 4 Key Pillars of Hadoop Performance and Scalability
The era of Big Data has arrived. Once dismissed as a buzzword, organizations are now recognizing the benefits of capturing and analyzing mountains of information to gain actionable insights that foster innovation and competitive advantage. To that end, open-source Hadoop ...
Data Visualization-Drawing Actionable Big Data Insights
“So much data, so little time.” That’s how a lot of companies feel about the explosion of Big Data. After all, the thought of capturing, analyzing and somehow getting insights from mountains of disparate data can be overwhelming. And not ...
5 Insights Your Traditional Data Won’t Tell You
The traditional relational database has been the mainstay of IT for decades. It offered a reliable way to store and search for structured data and an easy way to compare different categories of information. While the relational database works great ...
Improving the Big Data Toolkit
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software world. And Hadoop, the bedrock software of the fast-growing Big Data business, is ...
7 Tips for Improving MapReduce Performance
One service that Cloudera provides for our customers is help with tuning and optimizing MapReduce jobs. Since MapReduce and HDFS are complex distributed systems that run arbitrary user code, there’s no hard and fast set of rules to achieve optimal ...
Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Intel on Tuesday said it was getting into the software business with its own Hadoop distribution. The move is a potential blow for startups such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR that are offering their own distributions of Hadoop, but it’s ...
Is Little Data The Next Big Data?
Is personal quantification the next evolution of the Big Data revolution? And is our addiction to analytics leading us astray?
Three weeks ago, at approximately 10:32pm, Nike made me hit my dog in the face. Now before the ASPCA starts calling, ...