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What’s Beyond MapReduce? It Depends.
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What’s Beyond MapReduce? Filed in big data. June 6th, 2014 @ 09:59. Hadoop, or the fundamental concept behind it, has now existed for ten years. In 2004, Google released the original MapReduce paper. This paper resulted in the development of Hadoop, which helped spur much of the Big Data hype and discussion. Processing massive amounts of data with MapReduce has resulted in innovations and cost savings. But MapReduce is a batch solution. The world has changed since 2004 and so has Hadoop. On Is cryotherap...
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nosql • Nick Heudecker
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Is it Time For a DBMS Mass Extinction? September 26th, 2014 @ 10:04. On Sept 19, 2014, InfiniDB (formerly Calpont) announced it was closing its doors. Source: NatGeo – The Permian Extinction When Life Nearly Came to an End. Over the last eight years or so, dozens of new vendors have emerged offering specialized types of DBMSs. The website nosql-databases.org. Tracks about 150 different DBMSs. As I see it, the current level of diversity in the DBMS space is simply unsustainable. Open source is another ele...
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Hadoop is in the Mind of the Beholder
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Hadoop is in the Mind of the Beholder. Filed in big data. March 24th, 2014 @ 09:57. This post was jointly authored by Merv Adrian. Merv) and Nick Heudecker. Nheudecker) and appears on both blogs. This expanding footprint included a sizable group of related projects , mostly under the Apache Software Foundation. When Gartner published How to Choose the Right Apache Hadoop Distribution. This set of ten projects, the commercially supported ones, would have made a good response. If the popular definition of ...
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Spark Restarts the Data Processing Race
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Spark Restarts the Data Processing Race. Filed in big data. July 6th, 2014 @ 10:01. It’s still early days for Apache Spark, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that based on the corporate sponsorship. For the second conference for a very early technology, the list of notable sponsors is impressive: IBM, SAP, Amazon Web Services, SanDisk and RedHat. SAP also announced Spark integration with HANA. Its flagship DBMS appliance. Other companies, like MapR and DataStax. Click here to cancel reply. The Big Data ...
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big data • Nick Heudecker
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Big Data Challenges Move from Tech to the Organization. Filed in big data. Tagged with big data. December 2nd, 2014 @ 10:05. This year I had the opportunity to lead our predictions for big data. So far, only the most rudimentary elements of enabling infrastructure have been considered. This is not sustainable. One prediction from my colleague Roxane Edjlali is that 60% of big data projects will fail to make it into production either due to an inability to demonstrate value or because they cannot ...This ...
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Big Data Challenges Move from Tech to the Organization
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Big Data Challenges Move from Tech to the Organization. Filed in big data. Tagged with big data. December 2nd, 2014 @ 10:05. This year I had the opportunity to lead our predictions for big data. So far, only the most rudimentary elements of enabling infrastructure have been considered. This is not sustainable. One prediction from my colleague Roxane Edjlali is that 60% of big data projects will fail to make it into production either due to an inability to demonstrate value or because they cannot ...This ...
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The Big Data A-Ha Moment is Only the Beginning
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The Big Data A-Ha Moment is Only the Beginning. Filed in big data. September 18th, 2014 @ 10:02. Once the gathered executives saw what was possible with predictive analytics, even in a small scale, they wanted to do more: new cuts of data, additional facets, different questions. But the requests from the invigorated audience reinforced fundamental challenges with Big Data. Click here to cancel reply. Email (never published, required). Is it Time For a DBMS Mass Extinction? On Launching Summly on MongoDB.
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Benefits and Risks in Curated Open Source
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Benefits and Risks in Curated Open Source. Filed in big data. Tagged with open source. June 24th, 2014 @ 09:59. Announced its in-memory NoSQL DBMS is available under the AGPL license. The unexpected result is enterprises with open source mandates will be able to use Aerospike more broadly. As closed source software, Aerospike was a point solution. But the licensing change means Aerospike’s addressable use cases expand overnight. However, it takes more than simply having an Apache project or something on ...
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big data • Nick Heudecker
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Big Data Challenges Move from Tech to the Organization. Filed in big data. Tagged with big data. December 2nd, 2014 @ 10:05. This year I had the opportunity to lead our predictions for big data. So far, only the most rudimentary elements of enabling infrastructure have been considered. This is not sustainable. One prediction from my colleague Roxane Edjlali is that 60% of big data projects will fail to make it into production either due to an inability to demonstrate value or because they cannot ...This ...
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dbms • Nick Heudecker
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Is it Time For a DBMS Mass Extinction? September 26th, 2014 @ 10:04. On Sept 19, 2014, InfiniDB (formerly Calpont) announced it was closing its doors. Source: NatGeo – The Permian Extinction When Life Nearly Came to an End. Over the last eight years or so, dozens of new vendors have emerged offering specialized types of DBMSs. The website nosql-databases.org. Tracks about 150 different DBMSs. As I see it, the current level of diversity in the DBMS space is simply unsustainable. Open source is another ele...
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