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Lock-in is the nature of software, and open source is just software
Oracle's priorities have clearly shifted away from Java and its database products, as the bulk of fixes are for its middleware and e-commerce applications
Snowflake's mission: Add new, powerful enterprise features to a cloud-native data warehouse system without forcing the customer to turn knobs for the best performance
Streaming data platforms bring together not just low-latency analysis of information, but the important aspect of being able to integrate data between different sources
An open source version of the Hadoop-based and Spark-accelerated RDBMS is now available sans a few enterprise features
Most political campaigns emphasize providing information about a candidate to voters. But in the era of big data, they are also collecting information about voters – with little or no control, consent, or security
BI has always topped of the list of enterprise priorities -- and execs are always the least satisfied with BI initiatives. Why should big data be any different?
It's limited in power, but low in price: R Client provides a reduced but functional set of features from the full Microsoft R Server product
Innovative approaches and frameworks offered by cloud application vendors can bridge the silos
Fear not: The lingo needn't be mysterious. What's tricky is making it all pay off