Big news day for Big Data as Strata conference kicks off
As the west coast Strata conference kicks off in Santa Clara, Big Data news items abound.
View ArticleSiSense revamps its analytics/data discovery tool
SiSense 5 showcased at Strata; sports squeaky-clean, mobile-friendly, browser-based interface.
View ArticleIBM to acquire Cloudant
And so the consolidation begins. Megavendor IBM agrees to acquire prominent NoSQL player Cloudant.
View ArticleApache Spark becomes top-level project
The Hadoop-based in-memory cluster computing engine moves from Apache incubator status to top-level project
View ArticleTableau and Splunk partner up
The darling of data discovery and the master of machine data offer tight integration.
View ArticleMicrosoft's SQL Server 2014 crowns Redmond's data platform
The next release of Redmond's flagship relational database is done. In-memory computing; cloud and hybrid scenarios; and enhanced data warehousing capabilities are the product's major new features.
View ArticleCloudera’s show of numbers
Cloudera has raised a bunch of money. Again. In this guest post, Tony Baer explains what the new investment means for Cloudera, Hadoop and the data warehousing space.
View ArticleSAP loads BW onto HANA bandwagon
SAP's promise to bring all its products onto HANA gains credibility today as Business Warehouse 7.4 signs on.
View ArticlePivotal Big Data Suite released
Pivotal reveals its strategy for unifying different data technologies: License them all together.
View ArticleHortonworks announces Data Platform 2.1
Hortonworks' leading Hadoop distro now includes Stinger, Solr, Storm, security and governance, on Windows and Linux.
View ArticleBig Data: In conclusion
Some closing thoughts about Big Data, in my last post as ZDNet's Big on Data guy.
View ArticleApache Spark's success: Overhyped or preordained?
Belief in the quality of a platform tends to self-fulfill. Will that be the case with Apache Spark? Vendors seem so far ahead of customers on Spark that it's almost worrisome.
View ArticleCloud machine learning wars heat up
In 2010, Google launched its Prediction API. The month before last, Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning service went into general availability. Last week, Amazon announced its own machine learning...
View ArticleRow-level security provides enterprise chops
Major RDBMSes support RLS natively; Google has announced its BigQuery service does too.
View ArticleMicrosoft BUILDs its cloud Big Data story
New Azure Data Warehouse offering finally offers competition to Amazon Redshift. Azure Data Lake and new scaling models for Azure SQL Database round out the offerings.
View ArticleWhy Hadoop is hard, and how to make it easier
Hadoop is here to stay. But it's mature analytics tools for Hadoop, DBMS abstraction layers over it and Hadoop-as-a-Service cloud offerings that will make the open source Big Data platform actionable.
View ArticleSQL and Hadoop: It's complicated
With the 1.0 release of Apache Drill and a new 1.2 release of Apache Hive, everything you thought you knew about SQL-on-Hadoop might just have become obsolete
View ArticleCouchbase NoSQL Database gets the SQL Religion
Couchbase 4.0 elegantly integrates SQL and JSON, maintaining schema-independence while adding support for joins and a range of BI tools.
View ArticleMapR, Pentaho announce new releases at Hadoop Summit
As Hadoop Summit kicks off in San Jose, Hadoop and BI vendors MapR and Pentaho each launch new releases.
View ArticleHadoop and Spark: A tale of two cities
It's easy to get excited by the idealism around the shiny new thing. But let's set something straight: Spark ain't going to replace Hadoop.
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