Articles having tag: BIGDATA

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...

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,...

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...

Explaining Hadoop and Big Data to the C-Suite

By Alex Popescu

Explaining Hadoop and Big Data to the C-Suite:Great introduction to Big Data and Hadoop by Ravi Kalakota starting with an explanation of the market needs and the need for Hadoop, what Hadoop and its ecosystem are, a list of case studies, plus a brief market...

Hadoop: Answering the Basic Questions: Why, What, How, Where

By Alex Popescu

Hadoop: Answering the Basic Questions: Why, What, How, Where:A post on the HP blog answering 5 questions about Hadoop: Why Hadoop? What is Hadoop? What does it do? What is it good for? What's the future? With the current momentum behind Hadoop,...

Hadoop Market in 2016: $813mil

By Alex Popescu

Anew IDC report by Carl Olofson and Dan Vessetputs the Hadoop market in 2016 at $812.8 millions. I don't know how these numbers are calculated, but it feels like a low estimation. Maybe it's the open source origin of Hadoop and the price of the Amazon...

Google BigQuery: Running SQL-like Queries Against Very Large Datasets

By Alex Popescu

Announced at GigaOm Structure Data event, Googlelaunchesa new BigData service named BigQuery: BigQuery enables businesses and developers to gain real-time business insights from massive amounts of data without any upfront hardware or software investments. A...

DataSift :The Story So Far and Focus for the Future

By Alex Popescu

DataSift :The Story So Far and Focus for the Future:DataSift, the company withan impressive BigData architecture, has raised another $7.2mil to accelerate the growth: Maybe our biggest surprise to me is the breadth of use-cases that we're seeing companies...