Learn more about Jim Scott. If you’re in business, you need to know what’s going on both inside and outside your company operations. You need some kind of analytics to understand what your employees and your customers are doing. Analytics has been part of business for a while, but with the 24/7 nature of modern […]
NoSQL Expects Another Big Year in 2016 and Beyond
by Angela Guess Ben Rossi recently reported in Information Age, “Allied Market Research predicts that the global NoSQL market will reach $4.2 billion by the end of 2020, with a growth rate of 35.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2020. The reason for this growth is that companies are looking for database […]
Shaping the Genuine Internet Enterprise atop NoSQL
The NoSQL Apache Cassandra database is a name player in some very exciting companies and projects. Planet Cassandra cites among its resume its use by Facebook Instagram to operate a Cassandra cluster for the newsfeed part of its application; its implementation at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as the NoSQL database technology of […]
Why ‘Relational Databases Don’t Handle Big Data Well’
Chris Preimesberger recently opined for eWeek, “Enterprises are confronting the reality of big, fast, varied and changing data. It’s no longer about managing a small number of systems, but rather hundreds of systems and petabytes of data. Smart companies know that managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, known as big data, is crucial […]
Case Study: Cassandra Meets Call of Duty
Lis Evenstad recently wrote for Computer Weekly, “With the rise of the internet of things (IoT) and new technology, companies have the ability to collect and use more data than ever before. More data also means higher expectations and increased competition to stay on top of the game.’It’s about having real-time data at your fingertips,’ […]
Introduction to: Triplestores
Triplestores are Database Management Systems (DBMS) for data modeled using RDF. Unlike Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), which store data in relations (or tables) and are queried using SQL, triplestores store RDF triples and are queried using SPARQL. A key feature of many triplestores is the ability to do inference. It is important to note […]