by Angela Guess
Peter Wayner of InfoWorld has created a list of seven tools for taming Big Data. He states, “The industry now has a buzzword, big data, for how we’re going to do something with the huge amount of information piling up. ‘Big data’ is replacing ‘business intelligence,’ which subsumed ‘reporting,’ which put a nicer gloss on ‘spreadsheets,’ which beat out the old-fashioned ‘printouts.’ Managers who long ago studied printouts are now hiring mathematicians who claim to be big data specialists to help them solve the same old problem: What’s selling and why?”
He continues, “It’s not fair to suggest that these buzzwords are simple replacements for each other. Big data is a more complicated world because the scale is much larger… The game is much different now. Hadoop is a popular tool for organizing the racks and racks of servers, and NoSQL databases are popular tools for storing data on these racks. These mechanism can be much more powerful than the old single machine, but they are far from being as polished as the old database servers.”
Read about the seven tools for taming Big Data here.
