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Big data management

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Hadoop data lakes must get more efficient, less 'messy' to oust EDWs

  In a Q&A, Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri said Hadoop-based data lakes can become an alternative to enterprise data warehouses. But first, faster I/O and better data governance are needed.

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Hadoop data lake not a place for just lounging around

  A new Gartner report says the storage repository isn’t the trouble-free panacea many observers hail it to be. New data governance practices -- and new skills -- are critical.

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Initiative targets Hadoop data management, better data policies

  Hortonworks forms a data management initiative with Merck and others. Meanwhile, SQL and NoSQL may blur a bit.

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  Data warehouse software not ready for retirement in age of big data

  Hadoop clusters, NoSQL databases and other modern technologies have roles to play in business intelligence and analytics environments. But traditional data warehouses still do, too.

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  Splice Machine goes GA, joins SQL-on-Hadoop database fray

  Startup vendor Splice Machine has put SQL capabilities on top of Hadoop to create a hybrid database that it said can run both transaction processing and analytics applications.

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Startup Cazena talks up big data in the cloud at AWS re:Invent

  Cazena, a stealth-mode startup founded by former Netezza executives, is looking to solve the pain points that many enterprises have with managing and analyzing big data in the cloud.

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Spark framework gets big push from big data vendors

  The Spark processing engine, which targets machine learning and a range of other big data analytics applications, was a big topic at the 2014 Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York.

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Users mix Hadoop, other big data frameworks for processing punch

  Hadoop may get most of the big data glory. But Strata + Hadoop World attendees said combining it with other technologies is what's really needed to power big data applications.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Data wrangling a key to meeting civilization-scale challenges

  Agriculture, social media, IBM's Watson system and other global topics were discussed at EmTech MIT 2014, with big data wrangling often at the fore.

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  MemSQL targets cluster management; Syncsort puts big iron on EC2

  New high-performance data management systems are adding management traits, as a recent MemSQL release attests. Meanwhile, SyncSort shows a way to mainframe data on the cloud.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Tibco upgrades LogLogic to support faster log data analytics

  Tibco has updated its LogLogic software that's used to manage log data collected from operational applications, integrating the technology with its event processing and Spotfire analytics tools.

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Apache Kafka committer Jay Kreps on the way of the log

  To keep big data in motion, LinkedIn developers devised Apache Kafka, a publish-and-subscribe message dispatcher based on the concept of logs.

• June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14

  Apache Spark goes 1.0, looks to improve on MapReduce performance

  The Apache Software Foundation released Version 1.0 of Spark, a processing framework aimed at outpacing MapReduce for machine learning and other uses.

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Big data charge could turn data management profession on its head

  Discussed at DAMA's EDW 2014 were more flexible approaches to the data management profession. That's in response to growing mountains of diverse data.

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  Think Big Analytics' Bodkin: Big data adoption means breaking silos

  Hadoop has the ability ultimately to break down siloed data stores, Ron Bodkin says in a Q&A.