The Panama Papers. The Paradise Papers. Human trafficking. Russian social media trolls. Self-driving cars. If you’re wondering what all the above have in common, the answer is: Graph Databases. Their ability to store data connections in the service of gaining a better understanding of relationships across nodes has been recognized for use cases such as […]
Data Architects and Data Modelers: The SQL/NoSQL Debate is Dead
Karen Lopez says that when it comes to surviving as a Data Architect, “Hybrid is the future.” It’s no longer enough to speak only one language or stay attached to one set of technologies. According to Lopez, “purely relational (SQL) databases don’t exist any longer,” since most applications developed now use various types of database […]
Data Lake Management Reaches Maturity
Does this scenario sound familiar? In an organization’s quest to become data-driven and analytics-savvy, it has worked to implement a Data Lake. The initial hope was that such an organization would realize greater agility for certain use cases than was possible with a Data Warehouse – which were time-consuming to set up, costly to maintain, […]
Five Consistent Principles for the Changing World of Data Integration
Click to learn more about author Kevin Petrie. While few technologies sit still, Data Architecture is especially dynamic. Open source innovators and vendors continue to create new Data Lake, streaming and Cloud options for today’s enterprise architects and CIOs. With business requirements also evolving, placing solid strategic bets has rarely been more difficult. It’s therefore no […]
Hortonworks Introduces Operational Services to Simplify and Accelerate Data-Driven Insights
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Hortonworks, Inc.®, a leading provider of global data management solutions, today introduced Hortonworks Operational Services to help customers manage big data deployments and more quickly maximize the value of their data. The subscription-based service provides a fully managed environment for customers of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and […]
Three Big Data Predictions for a Post-Hadoop World
Click to learn more about author Alex Gorelik. Enterprise data continues to diversify in both volume and complexity, as do the roles that humans and machines play in Data Management. While many organizations in the past have relied solely on Hadoop to process Big Data, the complexity and cost has brought us into a post-Hadoop […]
Data Management and Analytics Trends Changing the Data World
Click to learn more about author Andrew Brust. What’s going on in the data world right now, and how will it impact the market in 2018? There are the obvious, banner headlines, of course: AI is everywhere and will change everything; Enterprises continue to move their infrastructure – and data – to the Cloud; GDPR […]
The Next Generation Logical Data Warehouse: It’s Time to Democratize the Data
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Previously, a Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure was something very complex where there were: data sources, normalization, ETL, OLAP Cubes and a physical Data Warehouse hosted on a physical server. Technology has grown a lot, and the scenarios are changing due to two particular factors: the Cloud and Virtualization. […]
Metadata: Bringing Business Decisions to Life in 3D
Click to learn more about author Kristin McMahon. In today’s data-driven culture, organizations across industries are approaching decision making from a quantitative point of view based on stats and figures, and relying less on gut feelings when making decisions. As they rely on data, they have expanded their strategy beyond back office and corporate applications. We […]
Data Architecture and the Need to Choose the Right Data Platform
Making do with a less than optimal Data Architecture and Data Platform is like reaching to pay for groceries and finding no wallet or cash. As William McKnight, President of McKnight Consulting Group asked during his Keynote Address for the DATAVERSITY® Database Now! Online 2017 Conference, “We may be overwhelmed by data, should we not […]