Articles by ALEX POPESCU

Possible Hadoop Trajectories

According to Michael Stonebraker and Jeremy Kepnerthe future of Hadoop is doomed: Computational space Data Management Adopt Hadoop for pilot projects Adopt Hadoop for pilot projects Scale Hadoop to production use Scale Hadoop to production use Hit...

Big Data: Transactions Plus Interactions Plus Observations

By Alex Popescu

Big Data: Transactions Plus Interactions Plus Observations:A Hortonworks post listing the 7 key drivers for the Big Data market from the business, technical, and financial perspective: Original title and link:Big Data: Transactions Plus Interactions Plus...

HBase 0.94 Released: What's New

By Alex Popescu

With over350 enhancements and bug fixes, 0.94 is the new major release of HBase.This Cloudera blog postdoes a good summary of the most interesting improvements: Read caching improvements Seek optimizations WAL writes optimizations added functionality to...

Hadoop Weaknesses and Where Teradata Aster Sees the Big Data Money

By Alex Popescu

Hadoop Weaknesses and Where Teradata Aster Sees the Big Data Money:An interesting post on Teradata Aster blog which is indirectly emphasizing the weaknesses of the Hadoop platform: Make platform and tools to be easier to use to manage and curate data. Otherwise,...

Licensing: Could It Be Simpler?

By Alex Popescu

In case you think licensing it's easy, readthis post by Alex Gorbachevexplaining how remote mirroring, backup, and cold failover come with their own licensing implications1. My thoughts went from "it's probably me", to "this can't...

NO DB - the Center of Your Application Is Not the Database

By Alex Popescu

NO DB - the Center of Your Application Is Not the Database:Uncle Bob: The center of your application is not the database. Nor is it one or more of the frameworks you may be using. The center of your application are the use cases of your application. [\u2026]...

The Grand Picture of Big Data and the Impact on the Architecture of Systems

By Alex Popescu

In a recentinterview for AllThingsD, Mike Rhodin, the senior vice president of IBM's Software Solutions Group gave a very realistic description of what the future of data looks like: [\u2026] it comes out of the digitization of the physical world, the...

What Big Data Is Used for at Facebook

By Alex Popescu

What Big Data Is Used for at Facebook:Just a couple of examples: product and brand engagement, advertising. A recent study we just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences tells a new story about the way people adopt products and...

Cassandra at Workware Systems: Data Model FTW

By Alex Popescu

Cassandra at Workware Systems: Data Model FTW:One of the stories in which the deciding factor for using Cassandra was primarily the data model and not its scalability characteristics: We started working with relational databases, and began building things...

Calculating the Cost of Storing PHP Sessions Using Amazon DynamoDB

By Alex Popescu

Calculating the Cost of Storing PHP Sessions Using Amazon DynamoDB: Aside from nominal data storage and data transfer fees, the costs associated with using Amazon DynamoDB are calculated based on provisioned throughput capacity and item size (see the Amazon...