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by Angela Guess Loraine Lawson reports that Pentaho is focusing in connecting Big Data to BI. She writes, “Pentaho is best known for its business analytics tool and open source heritage, but it also is one of the few BI vendors that focus on solving integration problems.” Lawson interviewed Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Richard Daley to...
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by Jay Zaidi @jayzaidi Big Data is all the rage these days, so it behooves us to delve a little deeper into it – to understand what it means and the opportunities it presents. Is Big Data truly a new phenomenon or an old concept presented in a new package? Will investing in Big Data...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports, “Analytics vendor SAS on Tuesday announced a SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server update that adds Apache Hadoop to its long list of supported data sources. But that’s just the start of a comprehensive approach SAS has in the works for big data analysis. Where many vendors treat...
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by Angela Guess Barb Darrow reports, “Boston has some pretty good database DNA dating back to Digital Equipment Corp.’s venerable Rdb and a raft of small object-oriented database firms that popped up 20 years ago. Those good genes are showing up again in a fresh crop of database companies clustered around the Boston-Cambridge nexus....
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by Angela Guess Ilya Katsov recently posted an in depth analysis of NoSQL data modeling techniques. Katsov begins, “First, we should note that SQL and relational model in general were designed a long time ago to interact with the end user. This user-oriented nature had vast implications: (1) End user is often interested in...
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by Angela Guess Rob Gonzalez recently declared, “Semantic Web Community: I’m disappointed in us! Or at least in our group marketing prowess. We have been failing to capitalize on two major trends that everyone has been talking about and that are directly addressable by Semantic Web technologies! For shame. I’m talking of course about Big Data and NoSQL.” He...
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by Angela Guess Hortonworks has partnered with Microsoft to create “a connector to link Excel with the open source Big Data processing platform… The companies previously partnered on getting Hadoop to run on Windows Server. Microsoft, of course, brings its knowledge of the inner workings of its own software and how to interface with it. Hortonworks...
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by Angela Guess Dick Weisinger recently reported that the results of a Couchbase survey show an increasing preference among developers for NoSQL solutions. He writes, “Over the last three years the banner of NoSQL (not only SQL) databases has flown ever higher, and the non-conventional database technology has grown a fairly large crowd of supporters, including...
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by Angela Guess Roger du Mars recently wrote, “As unstructured data becomes more tangible, more manageable and more valuable, the spheres of SQL and NoSQL will necessarily expand their common ground. The Hadoop ecosystem, as DeWitt gleefully observed, incorporates substantial SQL components. Both Hive, a Hadoop-based data warehouse developed by Facebook, and Pig, a...
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by Angela Guess Andrew Nusca reports, “Business analytics firm Teradata this morning announced the global release of its Database 14, promising 80 new features, 60 new functions and laser beams that will destroy everything in the way of productivity. Lasers aside — just kidding, folks! — the new database offers hybrid column and row capabilities integrated into the...
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