Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

Gartner’s Carl Claunch writes that Big Data involves a much wider and varied set of needs, practices, and technologies than just Hadoop or data warehouses. To meet the needs of graph computing, Cray’s ...

In this episode of True Technologist, host Eric Knorr talks with Matei Zaharia, chief technologist at Databricks and an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, about the Apache Spark and ...

Data warehouse systems have been at the center of many big data initiatives going as far back as the 1980s. Today companies from leading cloud hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (Redshift) and ...

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Contexti, a premier Big Data Analytics Managed Services, Consulting & Training company has today launched the Contexti Big Data Self-Assessment Framework. The Framework, which ...