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One Cluster To Rule Them All!
In the Hadoop space we have a number of terms for the Hadoop File System used for data management. Data Lake is probably the most popular. I have heard it called a Data Refinery as well as some other...
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The Best Way to Limit the Value of Big Data
A few years back I worked for a client that was implementing cell level security on every data structure within their data warehouse. They had nearly 1,000 tables and 200,000 columns — yikes! Talking...
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One of the key points I make in our Executive Big Data Workshops is that effective use of Big Data analytics will require transforming both business and IT organizations. Big Data with access to...
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Tomorrow I will be giving a webinar on creating business cases for Big Data. One of the reasons for the webinar was that there is very little information available on creating a Big Data business...
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Hadoop’s Ever-Increasing Role
With the advent of Splice Machine and the release of Hive 0.14 we are seeing Hadoop’s role in the data center continue to grow. Both of these technologies support limited transactions against data...
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Analytics in the Digital Transformation Era
Successful Enterprises compete on many capabilities ranging from product excellence, customer service and marketing to name a few. Increasingly the back office / Information Technology (IT) is becoming...
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The New Data Integration Paradigm
Data integration has changed. The old way of extracting data, moving it to a new server, transforming it, and then loading into a new system for reporting and analytics is now looking quite arcane....
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Think Better Business Intelligence
by jDevaun.Photography Everyone is guilty of falling into a rut and building reports the same way over and over again. This year, don’t just churn out the same old reports, resolve to deliver better...
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Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Oh My!
On Monday, I reviewed why Spark will not by itself replace Hadoop, but Spark combined with other data storage and resource management technologies creates other options for managing Big Data. Today,...
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Cassandra NoSQL Data Modeling Snip-pet
Data modeling in Cassandra is a little tricky and requires a combination of science and art. Think of the Cassandra column family as a map of a map: an outer map keyed by a row key, and an inner map...
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