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- March 21, 2018
21 Mar'18
Kubernetes gains momentum in big data implementation process
Big data vendors and users are looking to Kubernetes-managed containers to help accelerate system and application deployments and enable more flexible use of computing resources.
- March 15, 2018
15 Mar'18
Streaming tool from StreamSets eyes data in motion for GDPR
StreamSets software for inspecting big data brings governance to data in motion. Such capabilities may find more use as the European Union's GDPR deadline looms.
- February 22, 2018
22 Feb'18
Google TPUs open up on cloud; LinkedIn intros Hadoop Dynamometer
In big data news, we find Google TPUs, or Tensor Processing Units, offered as a cloud service, while LinkedIn is open sourcing a Hadoop test simulator called Dynamometer.
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- February 16, 2018
16 Feb'18
MongoDB 4.0 takes ACID transactions to multi-document level
MongoDB is taking a deeper step into SQL-style processing waters with a 4.0 update that brings increased support for ACID-compliant transactions to its NoSQL database.
- January 03, 2018
03 Jan'18
Apache Hadoop 3.0 goes GA, adds hooks for cloud and GPUs
Is this the post-Hadoop era? Not in the eyes of Hadoop 3.0 backers, who see the latest update to the big data framework succeeding in machine learning applications and cloud systems.
- December 01, 2017
01 Dec'17
AWS graph database Amazon Neptune sets sail at re:Invent 2017
After Cyber Monday, Amazon Web Services techies headed for re:Invent 2017. There, among a deluge of cloud product announcements by AWS, the Amazon Neptune graph database surfaced.
- December 01, 2017
01 Dec'17
Apache Impala gets top-level status as open source Hadoop tool
Born at Cloudera, the MPP query engine known as Apache Impala has become a top-level open source project. It's one of various tools bringing SQL-style interactivity to big data analytics.
- October 30, 2017
30 Oct'17
Connectedness is king, as Neo4j graph database ports to Spark
The Neo4j graph database emphasizes easy relationship mapping for diverse data points. Now, its related Cypher query language is hooking into Apache Spark.
- October 05, 2017
05 Oct'17
Big data systems up ante on data quality measures for users
At the Strata conference in New York, IT managers detailed steps they're taking to improve data quality in their big data environments in order to help ensure analytics accuracy.
- September 28, 2017
28 Sep'17
MapR-DB uses NoSQL to drive real-time analytics
The Strata conference in New York saw big data platform vendor MapR Technologies update MapR-DB, its NoSQL database engine, to better perform in real-time analytics applications.
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- September 26, 2017
26 Sep'17
Bank sees ETL processes evolve from IT to front-line users
ETL jobs -- once the sole province of IT -- take on a new form as data wrangling and self-service gain greater traction with business users of analytics.
- September 06, 2017
06 Sep'17
Energy partnership drills down on data quality issues
Breitburn Energy Partners employed data quality tools to address the business pain of bad data, using the software to give end users the means to fix data quality issues themselves.
- August 31, 2017
31 Aug'17
Confluent's Kafka data-streaming framework gets 'SQL-ized'
SQL on Hadoop arrived -- so did SQL on Spark. Now, SQL on Kafka is emerging to provide a different way to look at Kafka data as it streams through the enterprise.
- August 30, 2017
30 Aug'17
Big data vendors, users see Hadoop stack from different sides
In this Talking Data podcast, TechTarget editors discuss Hadoop's future, IBM's decision to resell the Hortonworks distribution of the open source technology and other big data issues.
- July 31, 2017
31 Jul'17
Apache Arrow to power startup Dremio's self-service data platform
Data management startup Dremio has aimed its Apache Arrow expertise at the problem of self-service data delivery. In-column caches and optimization speed queries across varied data stores.