One organization’s Data Lake may very well be someone else’s Data Swamp. The difference lies in how data is curated. What does this mean? For starters, a Data Lake describes where vast amount of data of various types and structures can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Specifically, Data Lakes make it easy for Data […]
Four Open Source Tools to Start Your Analytics Journey
Click to learn more about author Mark Hensley. As an adjunct instructor at University of Redlands, I teach several courses in the fields of business and technology. In that capacity I get to meet a lot of bright young people with a keen interest in data and Analytics. Unfortunately, the little financial resources most students […]
Get Ready to Operationalize Big Data Apps
The Big Data Executive Survey released by NewVantage Partners earlier this year shows that close to three-quarters of the respondents surveyed believe they are getting measurable value from their Big Data and Artificial Intelligence projects, which the survey considers as extensions of Analytics capabilities. That number, NewVantage reports, is half again higher than in the […]
Graph Databases Take on New Challenges
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 […]
Press Release: Agenda Announced for the 2018 Database Now Online Event
May 1, 2018 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for its second annual Database Now Online (DBO). The online conference will be held July 18, 2018 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time at databasenow.com. Anyone can register for free, and all registrants will receive access to the on-demand recordings, […]
How to Choose the Right NoSQL Database
This is the second part of an ongoing series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know. In that first part, I explained different NoSQL Database types and provided a few use cases suitable for each type. But that is not sufficient when you are […]
NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know
Click to learn more about author Akshay Pore. NoSQL databases have seen increased adoption in the last five years. A growing number of companies have at least one NoSQL database as a part of their enterprise data landscape. In today’s IT environment, where DevOps, SAFe and Agile are being increasingly embraced, utilization of NoSQL database for […]
Data Modeling Trends in 2018
The Database Management and Data Modeling landscapes have evolved significantly in the past few years, from the traditional relational model to now include non-relational models as well. The growth of Big Data and its unstructured and semi-structured data formats, along with trends in Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Lakes, Machine Learning, Blockchain and others pushing […]
Driving Greater SQL Scalability and Flexibility with Machine Learning
It’s time to dispel some myths surrounding SQL. That’s the message from MemSQL, a scalable real-time Data Warehouse that is designed to ingest and transform millions of events of data per day, while simultaneously analyzing billions of rows of data using standard SQL. As that description makes clear, there’s no reason to believe that there’s […]