Microsoft today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — ...

With the proliferation of XML as a new common data format, the problem of managing XML documents has become more critical. New technologies are now available that allow organizations to better manage ...

A large storage repository that holds data in their original format prior to being parsed and analyzed. The term is often associated with Hadoop, which was designed to hold huge amounts of data; for ...