There was a lot of news about Spark’s ascension in the big data ranks this week, as well as some speculation. According to Cloudera’s Mike Olson, his company is widely embracing… Read more »
Twitter has released an analysis of activity on the social network during the overtime shootout period in last week’s World Cup match between Brazil and Chile. The pattern, which Twitter claims… Read more »
Advertising technology involves a formidable set of requirements, and a new category of database known as NewSQL is emerging to address multi-genre analytics. Read more »
Yahoo has released a massive dataset for researchers to experiment on. The dataset includes URLs for nearly 100 million images and 700,000 videos, as well as their metadata. Soon, a larger… Read more »
Scientists have researched the effectiveness of deep learning techniques for discovering exotic particles and found some significant improvements over previous methods. They believe deep learning could help analyze data from the… Read more »
This week’s funding and new releases show that in-memory engine Spark, disk-based Hadoop and a range of SQL technologies are doing well and increasing in momentum. Read more »
Big data startup Databricks keeps humming along, announcing on Monday a large round of venture capital and a new cloud service that aims to seed adoption of Spark — a framework… Read more »
WANdisco, a company specializing in keeping Hadoop and HBase environments running in the case of system failures, has acquired a startup called OhmData that claims to have built a better version… Read more »
MapR has raised $110 million, $80 million of which is equity financing, in order to fuel its growing Hadoop business in the face of better-known rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks. Like those… Read more »
This week in cloud: Google and Twitter unleash new data analytic systems, NASA comes up with a cloud-related contest and Gigaom speaks to Docker’s Ben Golub. Read more »