Hadoop-5 Undeniable Truths
Everyone knows sensationalist headlines can be distracting or inaccurate. The real problem with such overblown headlines is this: Superficial debates are slowing down the true potential of Hadoop, big data, and the evolution of traditional databases.
At Qubole we often receive calls from ...
Using Hunk with Hadoop and Elastic MapReduce
Hunk is a relatively new product from Splunk for exploring and visualizing Hadoop and other NoSQL data stores. New in this release is support for Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce.Â
Hunk with Hadoop
Hadoop consists of two components, the first being a storage component called HDFS. HDFS can ...
7 Things You Must Know About Big Data Before Adoption
There is absolutely no doubt that the right use of big data helps businesses become more profitable. But for this to happen, there are things businesses must know.
Big data is the hottest technology trend going around right now. Crunching, analyzing ...
5 Big Data Hadoop Use Cases for Retail
Only in the last few years has the integration of big data and retail marketing become a method for customizing marketing campaigns to individuals -- and what a difference it has made. Previously, advertisers had to conduct focus groups, customer ...
Hadoop 2.0 and YARN Architecture
What is Hadoop 2.0 & YARN?
First off, a big kudos to Hortonworks for the great webinar by Arun C. Murthy ( who by the way was one of the primary people in building/releasing YARN) in which this post is based ...
Riak Enterprise 2.0 enhances NoSQL database usability
For organizations that deal with large quantities of data, the NoSQL database is a popular choice. However, it can present problems for traditional database programmers.
For this reason developers are always on the look out for ways to build applications more ...
10 ways to query Hadoop with SQL
SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That's the conventional wisdom, but the sheer number of projects putting a convenient SQL front end on Hadoop data stores shows there's a real need for products running SQL queries against data that ...
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 ...
SQL At Hadoop Scale
Improvements to the Hive engine have been announced by Hortonworks. Stinger.next is intended to deliver enterprise SQL with sub-second query response time and to scale from Gigabytes to Petabytes.
Hortonworks has announced their plans for more improvements to the Hive interface ...
NoSQL, NewSQL, or RDBMS-How To Choose
When should you choose a NoSQL or NewSQL option versus a conventional relational database management system? Here are 10 telltale traits that will help you make the right choice.
Today's databases are not only expected to be flexible enough to handle ...