Click to learn more about author Brahmajeet Desai. With data flowing in from a countless array of applications and devices, extracting insights from the data lake and making them available to business users in an easily can be quite a daunting task. If you moved to a Hadoop or cloud-based Big Data platform with the […]
Big Data: Replacing the Vs with a Single D
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. I can remember the first time people started to talk about “Big Data”. It may be a hackneyed phrase today, but some years ago it took the world of BI and analytics by storm. What then ensued was a mad frenzy to come up with a good […]
Benchmarking Hadoop Performance: On-Premises S3-Compatible Storage Keeps Pace with HDFS
Click to learn more about authors Gary Ogasawara and Tatsuya Kawano. When deploying Hadoop, scaling storage can be difficult and costly because the storage and compute are co-located on the same hardware nodes. By implementing the storage layer using S3-compatible storage software and using an S3 connector instead of HDFS, it’s possible to separate storage […]
Is it Time to Drain the Data Lake?
Click to learn more about author Karthik Ramasamy. It sounds appealing – easily store all of your data in a single location, where all of your users and applications can access it and put it to use. It’s no wonder that interest in data lakes rose rapidly at the same time hype around “Big Data” was […]
In-Memory Database Advancements Lead to Data-Driven Success
“Our recent research shows that companies now agree that data is the most important asset in an organization today – sometimes even more than human resources,” said Mathias Golombek, CTO for Exasol in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Yet evolving technology and organizational issues have led to separated systems, data silos, and lost opportunities. “The question […]
Three Big Data Fears (And Why You Should Not Worry)
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. We live and work in a world that has seen Big Data come to the forefront of nearly every sector of our lives. From medicine and mechanics to technology and retail, data gathering is big business, and now more than ever, it’s shaping the way we live. […]
The Power of Crunching Big Data Effectively
Click to learn more about author Lex Boost. Not embracing the Big Data trend can cost your company. According to an Accenture study, 79 percent of enterprise executives agree that companies not embracing Big Data will lose their competitive edge. With data creation on track to grow tenfold by 2025, it is extremely important for […]
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop v3.2.0
According to a recent press release, “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Hadoop v3.2.0, the latest version of the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Now in its 11th year, Apache Hadoop is the foundation […]
A Big Data State of the Union
Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. With the Big Data market and its seminal technology, Hadoop, each about a decade old, enterprise customers need answers to important questions about the Big Data ecosystem health and state of adoption. The ecosystem is maturing. What does this mean for Hadoop, Big Data […]
Predictions for Big Data Analytics in 2019
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Big Data Analytics has been one of the dominant tech trends of this decade, and it’s also been one of the most dynamic and innovative segments of the IT market. Today’s Big Data Analytics market is quite different from the industry of even a few years ago, and […]