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June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16
Graph technology the beating heart of new data management tools

Graph technology is popping up in many places, including master data management. A major data integration player has joined the quest, as seen recently at Informatica World.
June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16
Databricks reveals more on Spark 2.0; IBM, Microsoft renew Spark push

Spark 2.0, with structured streaming and SQL 2003 support, is aborning as indicated at Databricks' Spark Summit, where R-to-Spark interfaces also popped up.
June 03, 2016 03 Jun'16
Kafka streaming gets a new twist

Startup vendor Confluent is looking to place a stake in the big data ecosystem with Kafka streaming and management tools meant to reduce complexity in applications that place data in motion.
June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16
MIT panel shares tips on how to get into the data business

Data wrapping -- in this case, bundling data and analytics services with products -- may entice more companies to become data businesses. A panel at an MIT symposium considered some best practices for doing so.
May 19, 2016 19 May'16
Oracle NoSQL: An oxymoron waiting to happen?

New cloud apps seem ready-made for NoSQL. This may cause Oracle to put more focus on its Oracle NoSQL database, which is often overlooked amid a crush of NoSQL contenders.
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May 16, 2016 16 May'16
New data landscape augurs discovery-based architectures

In an interview, consultant Lakshmi Randall foresees changes in how data management is organized and executed as the overall data landscape shifts due to the adoption of big data systems.
April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16
Big data challenges traditional data modeling techniques

Surging big data is changing data modeling techniques, including schema creation. The word from Enterprise Data World 2016: Data pros must adjust.
April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16
EBay helps drive new style of data engineering

Open source data engineering has become a way of life at e-commerce leader eBay, says the company's Debashis Saha. Kylin is one of the tools that has resulted.
April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16
Data lake meets warehouse in hybrid data architectures

A new view on hybrid data architectures, in which data lakes and warehouses coexist, emerged at EDW 2016. The hybrid approach has implications for data design, skills and planning.
April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16
New tools offer a better view into managing Hadoop clusters

Running a Hadoop cluster in the data center isn't for the weak. But several new tools aim to give IT operations teams a closer look into what's going on inside Hadoop-based big data systems.
April 13, 2016 13 Apr'16
Hadoop market consolidation continues with Pivotal's exit

Pivotal Software dropped out of the Hadoop distribution business in favor of reselling the Hortonworks version of the big data framework -- and the market consolidation moves may not be over.
April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16
Streaming analytics puts data in motion at Strata + Hadoop 2016

Moving streams of data is a must in many modern applications. As a result, streaming analytics systems with Spark Streaming, Kafka and other components are coming to the big data forefront.
March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16
Hadoop core components may not be central to big data future

At Strata + Hadoop World 2016, Hadoop co-creator Doug Cutting said the core of the distributed processing framework is likely to see its position at the center of big data systems diminish.
March 25, 2016 25 Mar'16
Unstructured data is a misnomer

Nowadays, the term unstructured data pops up everywhere. It owes its popularity for a large part to the success of big data, to successful technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop, and to formats such ...
March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16
Strata + Hadoop World 2016: Hadoop and Spark in spotlight

The Strata + Hadoop World conference focuses on big data management and analytics technologies, in particular the Hadoop distributed processing framework and Spark processing engine.

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