Agile Database Development-5 Tips to Get You Started
Today, the majority of application developers are embracing the agile approach. Agile has thus become standard practice for many organizations. However, database developers, particularly those working on relational databases, have not readily adopted agile development methods, partly because they need ...
What Data Scientists Need to Know About SQL
If you're an aspiring data scientist or someone already working the field, you've probably heard about structured query language or SQL. People typically refer to it as "sequel" rather than by its full name or acronym. It's the database language ...
Kafka 0.9 and MapR Streams put streaming data in the spotlight
As the Internet of Things (IoT) heats up as a topic, and as big data continues along on its path to maturity, streaming data technology, which fits perfectly in the intersection of the two, is having its shining moment.
How appropriate, ...
MongoDB, Cassandra, and HBase-the three NoSQL databases to watch
Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far more broadly deployed -- and far more broadly developed. In fact, while shopping for a Hadoop vendor is relatively straightforward, picking a NoSQL ...
The new Reality-Data Warehouse And Big Data:Modernizing a Traditional BI Concept
Stefan Müller, 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 ...
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 ...
Top 10 worst big data practices
1. Choosing MongoDB as your big data platform. Why am I picking on MongoDB? I'm not, but for whatever reason, the NoSQL database most abused at this point is MongoDB. While MongoDB has an aggregation framework that tastes like MapReduce ...
Oracle Unveils MySQL Fabric
Ever since Oracle gained control over the MySQL relational database by acquiring Sun Microsystems, doubts have been raised about the company’s level of commitment to an open source database that many see as a rival to Oracle’s namesake RDBMS.
In a ...
Hadoop RDBMS Announced
A database that combines Hadoop and traditional relational abilities has been released as a public beta by Splice Machine.
The company says the database provides the scale-out technology of Hadoop, the distributed real-time computing power of the key-value store HBase, and ...
10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch in 2025
It's no secret that data volumes are growing exponentially. What's a bit more mysterious is figuring out how to unlock the value of all of that data. A big part of the problem is that traditional databases weren't designed for ...