Here we go: The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 1, April 2018
Graph databases are the hottest thing around right now. Whether you are just getting started, or you are in one of the 51% of organizations already using them, this is the place to get your news and analysis. The popularity of graph databases has gone through the roof almost overnight it seems. Everything points this way: […]
Read More →Data Works, Hadoop 3.0 is round the corner, and ‘Horton Hatches the Egg’
What's coming in Hadoop 3.0? How is Hortonworks' strategy evolving? And what are some examples of open-source powered innovation in big data use cases?
Read More →MapR, DataStax offer options for container persistence
If it's lack of options for persistence that's keeping you from using containers, maybe it's time you reconsider.
Read More →Streaming hot: Real-time big data architecture matters
What is streaming in big data processing, why you should care, and what are your options to make this work for you?
Read More →Digital transformation as a data-centric service
Is digital transformation something you can just buy into? No, but it is a data-centric process, and having the right products and people in place makes all the difference, according to Stratio.
Read More →Big Data, Crystal Balls and Looking Glasses: Reviewing 2016, predicting 2017
End-of-year reviews are boring — and everyone does them. Predictions are boring — and they are hard. Of course, this is different — because big data.
Read More →Cloudera, Hortonworks, and how they are progressing in their Hadoop security agenda
Back in July 2014, Gigaom published a research note on Hadoop security written by me. As there seems to be rapid progress in this domain, in the last few days there have been a couple of related developments that call for an update on the picture drawn in that report. As was noted in the […]
Read More →The best approach to managing Hadoop
This week Linked Data Orchestration published another report on Big Data. The report is titled “The best approach to managing Hadoop” and is brought to you in collaboration with Gigaom and Zettaset. The report examines the 3 choices available for managing Hadoop and discusses the pros and cons for each one. Organizations leveraging on-premises Hadoop […]
Read More →Hadoop World vendor announcements and impact on Accessibility, Scalability and Security
This week the world’s biggest event for all things Hadoop takes place, the Strata and Hadoop World conference. Vendors announce and showcase new releases and features in their offerings, and Gigaom covered the extensive array of news. Let’s try to decipher them and see their impact in terms of Hadoop distributions Accessibility, Scalability and Security. […]
Read More →RDF on Hadoop and Schema on Read vs. Schema on Write
One of the challenges for any Big Data solution is dealing with scale, and RDF stores are no exception: going for billions of RDF triples (the equivalent of rows in the SQL world) is not trivial. Hadoop on the other hand is great at scaling out on commodity hardware, which is a feature every MPP […]
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