Microsoft's Power BI comes out of preview and available on July 24th
The service runs on Azure and leverages main memory in contrast to two stage, disk-based MapReduce like older data stored in Hadoop. The support for Apache Spark was added directly into Power BI last night, and now users will benefit from query …
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Bits | Companies Move On From Big Data Technology Hadoop
Google's File System and MapReduce, the subjects of the two papers, were based on computing systems that were not organized around drawing a lot of computer memory in a short time; there just hadn't been that much data before. It did a good job, but it …
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Trace3 shows Big Data success comes from expertise, not just technology
True enough, Big Data does require hardware and software, but more important is understanding the issues that analytics is trying to address and architecting systems to find and refine data to provide answers to questions. … implementing the right …
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Research and Markets: Strategic Analysis of Big Data in Rapid Transit to 2021
The strategic insight provides an outlook of growth opportunities in the Global rail market for Big Data. Secondary and primary research was conducted, including interviews with suppliers, regulation authorities, and distributors. The study discusses …
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Gut instinct drives more firms than big data analytics
The rise of advanced analytics exerted upon big data stores and the opportunities for software application developers to engineer new 'insight-empowered' applications (and embedded application sub-elements) is taking the IT industry by storm.
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