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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…

Oct 16, 2014

Data Modeling for APIs. Part 5: Modeling vs. Meta-Modeling

Recently i was involved the creation of a data model for a project in the…

Sep 15, 2014

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…

Sep 8, 2014

SPARQL City and Benchmarks

We have written in the past about SPARQL, Hadoop and benchmarks. In this post, we…

Sep 1, 2014

Structure Data and the Competitive Landscape

Structure Data 2014 was another excellent Gigaom event. To anyone who has ever been to…

Mar 31, 2014

Unlikely PaaS alliances, strange offerings, and variable gauges

Recently we’ve seen developments in PaaS offerings that may strike some as odd or surprising:…

Mar 18, 2014

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