Actian Brings Graph Analysis To Big Data
Actian announced that it's adding a graph-analysis engine to its big data portfolio, which already includes a SQL-on-Hadoop offering as well as several relational databases and data-integration software.
Graph analysis is applied to uncover networked relationships among people, places, things, and ...
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 ...
16 NoSQL, NewSQL Databases To Watch
Why are businesses increasingly choosing alternatives to the leading relational database management systems when grappling with new data types and extreme scale?
We put that question to Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company, which is using a NoSQL database, Riak, ...
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 ...
Updated PostgreSQL targets NoSQL market
Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB.
The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4, released Thursday, includes a ...
Cascading 3.0 Future-Proofs Data-Centric Application Development on Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the company behind Cascading, an open source application development framework for building data applications on Hadoop, has announced Cascading 3.0, which CEO Gary Nakamura says will give enterprises the flexibility to build their data-oriented applications on Hadoop once, and ...
7 Facts About Hadoop That You Should Know
Where there is Big Data, there is Hadoop and vice versa. With Big Data analytics becoming as big as they have, Hadoop has become a mainstay in the technology industry.
Hereare a few facts that you should keep in mind when ...
Apache Hive Updated with SQL-on-Hadoop Features
The Apache Hive community has voted on and released version 0.13. This is a significant release that represents a major effort from over 70 members who worked diligently to close out over 1080Â JIRA tickets.
Hive 0.13 also delivers the third and ...
10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch in 2014
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 ...