How to Contribute to HBase and Hadoop2
By Nick Dimiduk
In case you haven’t heard, Hadoop2 is on the way! There are loads more new features than I can begin to enumerate, including lots of interesting enhancements to HDFS for online applications like HBase. One of the most ...
Apache Tez 0.3 Released
The Apache Tez community has voted to release 0.3 of the software.
Apache™ Tez is a replacement of MapReduce that provides a powerful framework for executing a complex topology of tasks. Tez 0.3.0 is an important release towards making the software ...
Apache Spark-3 Real-World Use Cases
By Alex Woodie
The Hadoop processing engine Spark has risen to become one of the hottest big data technologies in a short amount of time. And while Spark has been a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation for barely a ...
Big Workflow-The Future of Big Data Computing
How can organizations embrace — instead of brace for — the rapidly intensifying collision of public and private clouds, HPC environments and Big Data? The current go-to solution for many organizations is to run these technology assets in siloed, specialized ...
Top 12 funded Big Data Startup companies
Big data companies are attracting big investments from venture capitalists. But which startups are garnering the most funding? Venture capitalists made more big data investments than ever before in 2012, and a few more deals have already closed in 2013. ...
Things to Learn in R
By Joshua Burkhow
You up for learning something new? or maybe like me want to “do” statistics? If you are looking to do data analysis then R is a great tool/language to learn.
What is R?
R is a system for statistical ...
Java and Analytics the next frontier
I've been pretty verbal about Java going down the wrong path and my view that what Java should do is start having a 'core' which is just the real basics of the VM and the language and then a few ...
7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data in 2014
Information from Tableau Software
What a year 2013 was for big data. From the White House to your house, it’s hard to find an organisation or consumer who has less data today than a year ago. Database options proliferate, and business ...
Super Bowl ads need Big Data to be effective
When the Denver Broncos take the field against the Seattle Seahawks, the stakes will be much higher than the outcome of a football game. Advertisements are selling for about $4 million for 30 seconds of air time. That astronomical cost ...
Top 10 Big Data Trends in 2014
In January 2014, IDG published their latest big data enterprise survey and predictions for 2014 finding that on average, enterprises will spend $8M on big data –related initiatives in 2014. The study also found that 70% of enterprise organizations have ...