Introduction Have you ever wondered how your smartphone recognizes your voice input or how Facebook suggest an image tag for people you know? Whenever you visit an E-Commerce Shopping portal,…
This blog post first appeared on zdnet.com. It was published by Andrew Brust on September 18, 2013. The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance,…
SAP has invested a lot of its energies into a database called Hana. A major chunk of the SAP workforce is said to be working on Hana related projects. After…
Hadoop traces it’s origins to Google where two early projects GFS (Google File System) and GMR (Google Map Reduce) were written besides Big Table, to manage large volumes of data.…
According to a Wall Street Journal article by Rachael King and Steven Rosenbush, the market for new databases serving Big Data reached $1.22B last year and is expected to more…
I’m excited to share a successful implementation of the MapReduce framework on Amazon’s AWS infrastructure. Our end-client was a Fortune 500 beverage company, which had input data come in from…
Data is the new currency of business and we are in the era of data-intensive computing. Much has been written on Big Data throughout 2012 and customers around the world…
A recent article on Techcrunch made the argument that the term “Big Data” should be abandoned, on the basis that it has fallen into generic usage and, in any event,…
With every passing day, Big Data assumes new strength as a significant force in our industry. Someone even said that Big Data is transforming business same way IT did few…