Big Data, Apple Driving Industry’s Biggest Salaries
Enterprises may still not know exactly what value they expect to glean from Big Data, but that hasn't stopped them from spending big money on Big Data skills like Hadoop and NoSQL. According to a 2013 Dice Tech Salary Survey, ...
NewSQL Vendor MemSQL Takes On MongoDB
Startup vendor MemSQL announced Wednesday a new release of its high-scale, in-memory database that adds JSON (Java Script Object Notation) support. The move is aimed at attracting developers who might otherwise choose the MongoDB NoSQL database.
MongoDB has the leading market ...
Big data-Does size really matter?
Big data is becoming one big complex. It is the business world’s newest iteration of “keeping up with the Joneses.” The fervor for the latest and most expensive collection systems, infrastructure, and PhD-wielding data scientists is rising with the signature ...
Pentaho Announces New Offering for MongoDB-based Business Intelligence
Pentaho Corporation and MongoDB, Inc. today announced advanced MongoDB integration with the Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 platform, which launched today. Together these technologies provide a powerful, interactive analytical solution that meets the increasing requirements for big data in businesses today.
The ...
PostgreSQL-The Other big open-source database has a new release
When you think about open-source database management systems (DBMS), you probably think about Oracle's MySQL and its great rival/fork MariaDB. That's thinking too small. There's another great, enterprise capable DBMS, PostgreSQL, and its latest, greatest release PostgreSQL 9.3, has just ...
6 Basic Mistakes Marketers Make About Big Data
Sure, we're all suffering from big data fatigue. But try to forget that for a moment. The real “eureka” behind big data is this: Having information is no longer confined to merely understanding the past. Now — for the first ...
How Small Data Can Also Be Big Data
Gartner’s definition of big data dates back from 2001, when Doug Laney defined big data as increasing volume (amount of data), velocity (speed of data in and out), and variety (range of data types and sources). Since then the term ...
Big Data Bits Featuring Couchbase, Datawatch, Panopticon, MongoDB, Hadoop 2.x
Europe seems to be on holiday this week and in North America it’s the unofficial last week of summer. But in the world of Big Data there’s no time for reclining or relaxing. Though we can’t cover everything, here are ...
How big data is changing the world
You may not be that bothered about the idea of living in a smart city but I bet you'd love to live in one that was happy.
The data to measure the happiness of a city is already all around us, ...
Visualization-The Simple Way to Simplify Big Data
Data visualization has an amazing ability to make the complex simple, and the latest tools can do much more than give everyone the same view of data. It’s only through visualization that we can take something as abstract as symbols ...