Apache Drill vs. Apache Spark: What’s The Right Tool for the Job?
If you’re looking to implement a big data project, you’re probably deciding whether to go with Apache Spark SQL or…
No Time to Waste! 5 Essential Features for Your Information Intelligence Solution
Strategic information analysis is one of the most important activities that your company can perform. The fruits of this labor,…
A Guide to Spark Streaming – Code Examples Included
Apache Spark is great for processing large amounts of data over large clusters, but wouldn’t it be great if you…
72% of People Aren’t Familiar with Hosted VoIP
The cloud is well known for its management and storage of big data. It’s revolutionised the way in which businesses…
Big Data in the Sports Industry
Imagine the amount of data that could be collected and used for personal improvement if every professional athlete wore a…
Beer Brands Look to Big Data for Insights
Big data is changing the way business is done and one of the newest big data converts is the beverage…
Is Big Data Winning or Losing?
Big data is now used everywhere. AT&T has a database of 312 terabytes, the NSA use 30 million gigabytes a…
Using Big Data to Track and Measure Emotion
Emotion trumps the product and the price. But how to capture and measure it?In June, Forrester’s researcher Megan Burns caused…
Powering Personalized Medicine with Hadoop and Apache Spark
The Obama administration plans to dedicate $215 million in the 2016 budget to the “Precision Medicine Initiative.” This project centers…
How to Use Big Data to Improve Your Website’s SEO
I have said it before now, and most data enthusiasts agree that the term “Big Data” is difficult to define.…
