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, ...
How to Beat Your Competition Using Analytics in Insurance
AXA, LV= and Co-operative Insurance divulge how you can beat your competition using analytics in insurance
Competition in insurance is heating up, and analytics is widely recognised as a key tool for gaining an edge.
According to AXA, LV= and Co-operative Insurance; ...
Apache Drill 1.0 is Now Generally Available
Today, we are extremely excited and proud to announce the general availability (GA) of Apache Drill 1.0, as part of the MapR Distribution. Congratulations to the Drill community on this significant milestone and achievement!
Incubated in September 2012 as an Apache ...
Big Data-As-A-Service Is Next Big Thing
We’ve had software as a service, platform as a service and data as a service. Now, by mixing them all together and massively upscaling the amount of data involved, we’ve arrived at Big Data as a Service (or BDaaS, and ...
Hadoop update 2.7.0 Released
The Apache Hadoop community is happy to announce the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0! We want to express our gratitude to every contributor, reviewer and committer.
The Hadoop community fixed 923 JIRAs in total as part of the 2.7.0 release. Of ...
The top 3 qualities of a great data scientist
With a growing demand for efficiency and accuracy, comes a growing demand for stellar data scientists. In fact, as of March 2015, there are over 60,000 job postings for data scientists on LinkedIn, and over 250,000 people listing data science ...
NoSQL Predictions for 2026
By 2026, key predictions for the NoSQL landscape point to deeper integration with AI and machine learning, strong market expansion, and a growing focus on hybrid data models that blend the flexibility of NoSQL with the reliability and analytical strengths ...
AWS joins Azure and Watson in bringing machine learning to big data
AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) has announced that it will soon offer machine learning as an option to customers.
The technology is the same creepy stuff that uses algorithms to recommend things that you might also like when you browse Mazon's retail ...