by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Crate.io today announced general availability of CrateDB 1.0, an open source SQL database that enables real-time analytics for machine data applications. CrateDB makes machine data applications that were previously only possible using NoSQL solutions available to mainstream SQL developers. The company also announced today that it has […]
Health Catalyst Launches Open Source Machine Learning: healthcare.ai
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release out of Health Catalyst, “Use of machine learning and predictive analytics to improve health outcomes has so far been limited to highly-trained data scientists, mostly in the nation’s top academic medical centers. No longer. healthcare.ai is on a mission to make machine learning accessible to the […]
Apache Spark Survey Reveals Increased Growth in Users and New Workloads
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “In order to better understand Apache Spark’s growing role in big data, Taneja Group conducted a major market research project, surveying approximately 7,000 people. The sample was made up of technical and managerial job roles from around the world directly involved in big data. The survey, […]
New Cloud Data Services for New Age Developers
Developers today wear many faces: They are traditional programmers, but also Data Scientists, IT architects, entrepreneurs, and self-taught casual users. Gartner, in fact, has predicted that by 2020, 60% of all fast-mode application development projects will be done outside of formal IT teams, driven by the rise of citizen developers. “We are going to have […]
Cloudera’s Analytic Database Enables Unrivaled Elastic Scale, Agility
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, today released benchmark results that validate Cloudera’s modern analytic database solution, powered by Apache Impala (incubating), not only delivers unprecedented capabilities […]
Open Source Greenplum Database is Now Available on the AWS Marketplace
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “The world’s first open source massively parallel data warehouse is now available on the AWS Marketplace powered by zData Inc. Greenplum Database® is designed to work effortlessly on AWS with easy management and installation from the AWS Marketplace. Greenplum Database® on AWS is geared towards big […]
KEYW Releases Data Analytics Development Tool, Hog, to the Open Source Community
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “The KEYW Holding Corporation today announced the release of Hog, an integrated development environment (IDE), to the open source community. Hog builds on a recognized big data and cyber analytics staple, Apache Pig, to provide an environment where both analysts with minimal or no coding abilities—and experienced […]
ScyllaDB Announces General Availability of World’s Fastest NoSQL Database
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “ScyllaDB announced the general availability release 1.3 of its revolutionary open source NoSQL database. A ground-breaking C++ implementation of the popular Apache Cassandra database, ScyllaDB delivers the superior performance, high availability, horizontal scalability, and low latency that organizations require for big data projects, high-volume ecommerce and […]
Baidu to Open Source New Platform for Deep Learning Called PaddlePaddle
by Angela Guess A recent release out of the company states, “Baidu, Inc., the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced it will release an open source software platform for the deep learning community. The software will be released on GitHub on Sept. 30 with full documentation and specs. A pre-release alpha version is […]
Teradata Acquires Big Data Partnership Consultancy, Expands Analytics Services
by Angela Guess A new press release out of the company reports, “Teradata, the big data analytics company, announced today that it has purchased Big Data Partnership, a leading EMEA-based services provider of big data solutions and training. Big Data Partnership has deep expertise in disruptive technologies, including Apache Hadoop, and helps its clients discover […]