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by Paul Williams This installment of the DATAVERSITY series on the wide-ranging NoSQL movement covers Document Databases. Obviously, Document Stores center on the concept of data stored within a document. The encoding of this document can either be text in some form of a markup language or something formatted as binary. Examples of binary...
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by Jody Ray Bennett Many people remember IBM’s artificial intelligence supercomputer, Watson, when it appeared as a contestant on the popular game show Jeopardy! in February 2011. Arrangements for the computer to appear on the show went as far back as 2008 when IBM representatives contacted Jeopardy! executives to arrange for Watson to play...
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by Paul Williams Arguably the most controversial buzzword to come along in the data professional community in years, NoSQL means different things to different people. Over time, the “No” in NoSQL has effectively changed to “Not only,” which better reflects the multifaceted world surrounding this collection of predominately non-relational database technologies. NoSQL continues to...
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by Jody Ray Bennett Have you ever wanted to know exactly how many cluster bombs were dropped by US air missions over Vietnam in 1968? Are you curious about how many bombs were dropped on the German forces in World War II between 1942 and 1944? Are you curious to know how many bombs...
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by Michael Brackett Temporal data are often treated lightly, and sometimes not at all, during data resource design and development. However, temporal data can be extremely important to an organization and must be considered in a well-designed data resource. The three aspects of temporal data that must be considered are briefly described below.* Temporal...
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by Paul Williams As enterprises look at implementing a new Data Governance program or improve an already existing one, the importance of Metadata needs to be considered. But first a firm must look at what benefits they hope to achieve through Data Governance. A company focused on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance might have a different set...
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by Jody Ray Bennett As the world’s stored digital data grows unfathomably, NoSQL (often referred to as “not only” SQL) serves as a means to navigate these massive stores of data that SQL systems have trouble with. For instance, between 2006 and 2010, stored data increased over 500% to over 1,000 exabytes (equal to...
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by Paul Williams Data modeling came into vogue in the 1970s driven by the need to properly model databases or even real-world business processes. Peter Chen, an attendee at this year’s Enterprise Data World conference, popularized the Entity-Relationship model in a paper published in 1976. The previous year, A. P. G. Brown, in a...
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by Paul Williams The continued growth of Cloud Computing has led to a host of IT-related service offerings derived and consumed at a cloud level. Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) are some of the most popular products – and acronyms – emerging out...
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by Jody Ray Bennett NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory made international headlines last month when its Curiosity rover made a successful landing on the red planet’s Gale Crater. Launched on November 26th, 2011, Curiosity traveled over 350 million miles to touch down just 1.5 miles away from its target on August 6th, 2012. Equipped with...
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