Why Apache Spark is a Crossover Hit for Data Scientists
Spark is a compelling multi-purpose platform for use cases that span investigative, as well as operational, analytics.
Data science is a broad church. I am a data scientist — or so I’ve been told — but what I do is actually ...
MariaDB-An Open Source Alternative and Replacement of MySQL
MySQL was the best open source database in the market before Sun Microsystems purchased it. After this, Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems and MySQL came in the hands of Oracle. After this purchase a fair number of MySQL users started looking ...
How to Make Your In-memory NoSQL Datastores Enterprise-Ready
In-memory NoSQL datastores such as open source Redis and Memcached are becoming the de-facto standard for every web/mobile application that cares about its user’s experience. Still, large enterprises have struggled to adopt these databases in recent years due to challenges ...
Hadoop on OpenStack-Elastic Data Processing (EDP) with Savanna 0.3
Now that version 0.2 of Project Savanna is out, it’s time to start looking at what will be coming up in version 0.3. The goal for this next development phase is to provide elastic data processing (EDP) capabilities, creating a ...