The famed MongoDB document database and its benefits
Over the past few years, there have been talks about data management and administration of databases. It is indeed important for data to be managed properly for the best results. Businesses get to enjoy lots of benefits if they manage ...
Things You Should Know About Big Data
People using Big Data need to know certain things about it, especially the technologies and architecture. Understanding the biggest challenges while implementing the processes related to Big Data in their storage environments.
After its arrival on the scenario, for some times ...
Top 5 Trends in Big Data Analytics
While the majority people understand that companies are empowered by actionable information penetrations and help drive sales, devotion and exceptional customer experiences, thinking of making sense of enormous quantities of information and undertaking the job of unifying is daunting. But ...
BI Professionals Spend 50-90% of Their Time âCleaningâ Raw Data for Analytics
Last year, the NYT shined a light on big dataâs âjanitorâ problem â that data scientists and business intelligence pros spend too much time cleaning, not evaluating data. But how big of an issue is it, really?
Xplenty just wrapped a commissioned study of ...
Relevance of Big Data
In todayâs world, where operations are entirely dependent on business intelligence and utilize the platform of information warfare for execution of the same, data has become one of the most vital entities for execution of business and it is very ...
Data Lake Showdown: Object Store or HDFS?
The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the distributed systemâbe it a file-based system like ...
4 Considerations When Choosing a Hadoop Distribution
Choosing the right Hadoop distribution can be a tricky process. Many businesses looking to adopt Hadoop in their data infrastructure have a hard time figuring out what really differentiates one distribution from another. With so many options available, itâs easy ...
MapR 5.0 Hadoop supports real-time applications
With a focus on real-time applications, MapR Technologies took the wraps off the 5.0 version of its Hadoop distribution.
"Eighteen percent of our customers have 50 or more applications running on a single cluster," says Jack Norris, chief marketing officer ...
Top 10 Big Data Security Considerations
As organizations gather and manage more and more big data, here are 10 best practices to protect all of that information from hackers and cyber breaches.
Think Even Bigger
Before we dive into security for specific big data platforms (like Hadoop, ...
7 Ways to Get Ready for the Big Data of the Future
Data science is in the midst of transformation, with Big Data technologies starting to significantly encroach on the market share of traditional RDBMSs (relational database management systems). Spending worldwide on Big Data is forecast to hit $114 billion by 2018, ...