Buyers and practitioners in the data market have faced a gut-wrenching choice: work with big data and tolerate the latency of batch-mode…
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Apache Big Data releases continue unabated
Last week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big…
Read MoreMicrosoft announces numerous Azure data releases; HBase finally turns 1.0
After last week’s somewhat encyclopedic (and I mean that self-effacingly) Strata news roll-up, this week’s post focuses on just a couple of…
Read MoreA Strata news digest
The Strata + Hadoop World Big Data confab starts up in San Jose, CA this morning, and a bunch of vendor announcements are…
Read MoreMachine Learning for business users and enterprise developers
Machine Learning has been around for well over a decade and, with the rise of “Big Data” analytics, has become especially prominent…
Watch NowBig Data Application Development: Why it Matters
Big Data is still in its early stages of life; to get to the next stage, its integration with core enterprise technologies…
Watch NowHadoop’s New Role: Adjunct Data Warehouse
There was a time, a little over two years ago, when SQL-on-Hadoop was about cracking open access to Hadoop data for those…
Read MoreHadoop’s new role: Adjunct data warehouse
There was a time, a little over two years ago, when SQL-on-Hadoop was about cracking open access to Hadoop data for those…
Read MoreCloud BI competition heats up while Apache projects move up
The holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the…
Read MoreMaking every developer a Big Data developer
What does it mean to be a Big Data developer? Does it mean you’re a data analyst who knows how to code? …
Read MoreHadoop security wars
You may recall that Cloudera and Hortonworks each acquired Hadoop security companies last year. Hortonworks acquired XA Secure and Cloudera acquired Gazzang. I covered the XA…
Read MoreBig data needs a product like Microsoft Access
The trend toward self-service in business analytics has been good for the big data industry. But in order for the user-oriented paradigm to take…
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