One of the major barriers to any successful Big Data project is mastering all of the technologies needed to make it happen. Big Data has evolved into a mish-mash of technologies, with Hadoop at the ...

It's exciting to see the industry begin to rally around a best-practice big data stack - a construct on which to build reference architectures for scalable, secure big data systems. Open dialog on ...

Will 2014 see the emergence of a big data equivalent of the LAMP stack? Richard Daley, one of the founders and chief strategy officer of analytics and business intelligence specialist Pentaho, ...

Businesses continue to struggle with exploding volumes of data, not just manage it to keep IT systems from being overwhelmed, but to find ways of deriving value from all that data and somehow use it ...

Basho Technologies made a name for itself in the NoSQL database world by developing a scalable key-value store called Riak that’s used by the likes of Time Warner, The Weather Company, and Comcast.

Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management software and data analytics tools – all critical components of an effective operational or analytical data system. But all those ...

Unravel Data, provider of a full-stack performance intelligence platform for optimizing Big Data operations (DataOps [1]), emerged from stealth, announcing a new platform to accelerate Big Data ...

What’s the intersection between the Big Data stack and real-time capabilities? The convergence is long overdue, says Trestata founder Abhishek Mehta, who discusses the market juncture on a recent ...

Over at Enterprise Storage Forum, Dell’s Jeff Layton continues his series of features looking at Big Data processing components with a look at the specifically eight classes of the Application Stack, ...

A data-processing solution from Mesosphere leverages Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra -- but eschews Hadoop -- for enterprise level real-time big-data needs Mention big-data tools like Spark and Kafka to ...

Back in the early 1990s, you would sometimes hear this gag: “Two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Although wildly inaccurate, this ...

Google today announced that its hosted Spark and Hadoop distribution, Cloud Dataproc, can now run on Kubernetes, at least as an alpha. It may not sound particularly groundbreaking. But when you ...