Last week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big Data-related projects rolled out of the Apache Software Foundation. I… Read more »
After last week’s somewhat encyclopedic (and I mean that self-effacingly) Strata news roll-up, this week’s post focuses on just a couple of items: Microsoft’s collection of cloud data announcements (which also… Read more »
The Strata + Hadoop World Big Data confab starts up in San Jose, CA this morning, and a bunch of vendor announcements are coming along for the ride. Some of the news broke just… Read more »
Machine Learning has been around for well over a decade and, with the rise of “Big Data” analytics, has become especially prominent in the last few years. Many companies are now… Read more »
Big Data is still in its early stages of life; to get to the next stage, its integration with core enterprise technologies needs to get better. Chief among the enterprise environments… Read more »
There was a time, a little over two years ago, when SQL-on-Hadoop was about cracking open access to Hadoop data for those with SQL skillsets and eliminating the exclusivity of access… Read more »
There was a time, a little over two years ago, when SQL-on-Hadoop was about cracking open access to Hadoop data for those with SQL skillsets and eliminating the exclusivity of access… Read more »
The holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the open source world, have hit in the last week, and… Read more »
What does it mean to be a Big Data developer? Does it mean you’re a data analyst who knows how to code? Does it mean you’re a hero developer who also… Read more »
You may recall that Cloudera and Hortonworks each acquired Hadoop security companies last year. Hortonworks acquired XA Secure and Cloudera acquired Gazzang. I covered the XA Secure acquisition in a post on this blog and… Read more »