Facebook’s Big Data: Equal Parts Exciting and Terrifying?
Facebook, the popular social network with over 1.2 billion users world wide, has not just big, but gigantic amounts of…
NoSQL Vs. RDBMS for Interactive Analytics: Leveraging the Right and Left Brain of Data
Comparing NoSQL and relational databases is lot like comparing the left and right sides of the brain. Too much focus…
How MapR’s M7 Platform Improves NoSQL and Hadoop
The M7 Edition. Sounds like a high performance sports car, doesn’t it? The M7 Edition. Sounds like a high performance…
8 Features of a True Enterprise-Grade Platform for Hadoop and NoSQL
Businesses have several options when looking for a Hadoop and NoSQL solution. Businesses have several options when looking for a…
Guiding Principles for Data Enrichment
The data integration process is traditionally thought of in three steps: extract, transform, and load (ETL). Putting aside the often-discussed…
7 Ways Businesses are Leveraging Hadoop
When you hear about Hadoop or Big Data, you probably think of large Internet companies, such as Google or F…
Can Big Data and Hadoop Feed the World?
It’s no secret that the world’s population is growing. It’s no secret that the world’s population is growing. In fact,…
3 Reasons Hadoop is Heading to the Cloud
Cloud computing and big data have been vying for the attention of business owners for several years now. Both initiatives…
Google and Apache Hadoop: A Match Made in the Cloud
To the uninitiated, words like “Google” and “Hadoop” sound like the stuff of a futuristic make-believe world. Being that the…
The World’s Most Unusual Data Centers [INFOGRAPHIC]
With an ever growing amount of data in the world, that data also needs to be stored and why not…
