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On the First day of Christmas, big data gave to me / One Hadoop ecosystem... but many components! Please sing along.
Storm lets you create real-time analytics for every conceivable need. Here's a tasty example using Twitter data and source code hosted on GitHub
You'd never come home with a dirty, pest-infested and untrained puppy you randomly pick in the street. So why would you bring into your systems unclean, ungoverned data of dubious origin?
SlamData adds its own extensions to the SQL language, enabling analysts to query MongoDB directly, without conversion to an RDBMS or Hadoop database
MobileFirst for iOS apps use IBM's analytics and Apple's design polish to resolve pain points in telecom, banking, retail, travel businesses
Real-time business intelligence is going mainstream, thanks in part to the Storm and Spark open source projects. Here's how to choose between them
Online versions of HP Vertica and IDOL will be available as cloud services in 2015
In the Wild West of big data, the rules of traditional information management don't always apply easily. But should you give up so quickly on data quality, governance, proper metadata, and security?
Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours
Why is marketing running the show here, and at which point will these companies create a dedicated business unit?