Strata Santa Clara 2012 showcased Big Data technologies, solutions, and use cases. Calpont co- presented with customer Genus to discuss how InfiniDB is used for real-time genotyping of livestock, as ...

The latest open source Big Data project to be advanced to top-level status by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is Kudu, a "columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem designed to ...

Five Pitfalls to Avoid with Hadoop Conventional wisdom holds that as a batch-oriented platform, Hadoop is not well suited for running high-performance analytics applications. This week, however, ...

Businesses and organizations are increasingly challenged to handle the huge volumes of data, both internally generated and acquired from outside sources, that they need to process, store and analyze ...

Big data is one of the, well, biggest trends in IT today, and it has spawned a whole new generation of technology to handle it. And, with new technologies come new buzzwords: acronyms, technical terms ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings ...

NoSQL keeps rising, but relational databases still dominate big data Your email has been sent NoSQL promised to upend the database market as big data forced a sea change in how we think about and ...

Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change. A whole crop of new contenders are ...

Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change. A whole crop of new contenders are ...

As the default database for Hadoop, you'd expect HBase to be more popular than it is, but its time may already have passed A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in ...