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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.

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SiSense revamps its analytics/data discovery tool

SiSense 5 showcased at Strata; sports squeaky-clean, mobile-friendly, browser-based interface.

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IBM to acquire Cloudant

And so the consolidation begins. Megavendor IBM agrees to acquire prominent NoSQL player Cloudant.

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Apache Spark becomes top-level project

The Hadoop-based in-memory cluster computing engine moves from Apache incubator status to top-level project

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Tableau and Splunk partner up

The darling of data discovery and the master of machine data offer tight integration.

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Microsoft'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.

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Cloudera’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.

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SAP 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.

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Pivotal Big Data Suite released

Pivotal reveals its strategy for unifying different data technologies: License them all together.

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Hortonworks announces Data Platform 2.1

Hortonworks' leading Hadoop distro now includes Stinger, Solr, Storm, security and governance, on Windows and Linux.

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Big Data: In conclusion

Some closing thoughts about Big Data, in my last post as ZDNet's Big on Data guy.

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​Apache 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.

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Cloud 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...

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Row-level security provides enterprise chops

Major RDBMSes support RLS natively; Google has announced its BigQuery service does too.

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Microsoft 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.

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Why 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.

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SQL 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

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Couchbase 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.

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MapR, 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.

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Hadoop 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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