O’Reilly Media released the results of its second-annual data science salary survey on Thursday (available for free download here), and the results were not too surprising. Essentially, it shows that people… Read more »
Apache Drill has graduated to Top-Level Project status. Is it merely ready for primetime or will it succeed there? And does the Big Data world need another SQL-on-Hadoop engine? Read more »
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has priced its initial public offering at between $12 and $14 a share, according to an updated S-1 form the company filed with the SEC on Monday. Read more »
LinkedIn shed more light Tuesday on a big-data framework dubbed Gobblin that helps the social network take in tons of data from a variety of sources so that it can be… Read more »
On Tuesday evening, Gigaom and Collective hosted a dinner in Boston for area executives, with Ray Ozzie as the special guest and speaker. This post isn’t a recap of that dinner,… Read more »
Enterprises adding a management layer to Hadoop on-premises can add the advantages of cloud-based Hadoop while maintaining control of their data. Read more »
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news. Read more »
Dating site eHarmony is overhauling its IT infrastructure with a lot of open source technology. CTO Thod Nguyen explains what the company is looking to use and why it made those… Read more »
Splice Machine ships v1 of its RDBMS-on-Hadoop. Plus, HP Vertica, MapR and the Apache Drill and CouchDB teams have release news of their own. Read more »
Hortonworks’ IPO filing on Monday shows that Hadoop is still a resource- and risk-intensive business, but also suggests it’s one that public market investors will be willing to back. It might… Read more »