Big data management and analytics applications rely on an ecosystem of components that can be combined in a variety of ways to address application requirements. This article examines three aspects of this ecosystem and associated technologies: storage, appliances, and data management. Read More…
Demand for IT professionals with Hadoop and NoSQL skills are a small but fastest-growing segment of the big data industry, according to a new report from Wikibon. Meanwhile on job boards like Dice, jobs posting for Hadoop jobs are up 64 percent in the past year. Read More…
If Chris Wensel, founder and CTO of big data application platform provider Concurrent, gets his way, developers won’t have to take a crash course in MapReduce, toss aside their SQL skills or write endless Java script in order to run big data applications on Apache Hadoop. Read More…
Compared to relational databases, whose history stretches back into the 1970s, NoSQL databases are new to the enterprise scene. As a result there are still myths about exactly what a NoSQL database can and can’t do. This situation is exacerbated Read More…
Behind the scenes, the Obama campaign was about creating an analytics culture so that everyone—from tens of thousands of field workers to more than 100 data analytics experts—collected data, measured outcomes and refined programs to achieve results. Read More…
A new crop of high-performing databases are entering the market to reach out to millions of data professionals who are fluent in SQL. These new databases use the interactive querying language, while changing how transactional data is stored, to address performance limitations of traditional relational databases. Read More…
