The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to build out their big data and analytics portfolios. Read more »
Data warehouse vendor Teradata continues to step up its game in the broader big data market, this time by acquiring consulting firm Think Big Analytics, which specializes in helping clients deploy… Read more »
New features included in Hadoop’s latest releases go some way towards freeing an increasingly capable data platform from the constraints of its early dependence on one specific technical approach: MapReduce. Read more »
This week brings a pair of tuck-in acquisitions, a new release and a partnership that deliver fit, finish and further Enterprise-mainstreaming of Hadoop and predictive analytics. The week’s events also include an important… Read more »
Ever since Cloudera’s October, 2012 announcement of its Impala SQL-on-Hadoop engine, it seems the database industry has been obsessed with fusing the SQL query language with Hadoop. These various pairings have… Read more »
Hadoop can be an efficient and cost-effective tool for offloading some of the data processing currently done inside the enterprise data warehouse. Read more »
Teradata announced a new set of features and products on Monday that should improve its position as a go-to analytics vendor even in an age of Hadoop. But as open sources… Read more »
What to expect: Keynotes by Amazon Web Services bigwigs (minus Jeff Bezos); Netflix, NASA; a scrum of partner announcements; and lots of counter programming from cloud rivals. Read more »