Data Lake Showdown: Object Store or HDFS?
The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the distributed system–be it a file-based system like …
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Spark comes to Azure HDInsight | ZDNet
It is becoming more defined by the ecosystem of tools and projects compatible with its HDFS storage system, and less by its own processing infrastructure. Is this good? Is it misguided? Frankly, it doesn't matter. The state of the art in the analytics …
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Analytics Showdown: Should Apps Be Simpler, Or Smarter?
Qlik's QlikView software provides an in-memory data-discovery environment, while Tableau is known for its data-visualization software. Big BI incumbents such as IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy, Oracle, SAP, and others have all validated the Qlik and Tableau …
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RapidMiner Adds Streams To Bring Real Time To Its Big Data Processing
For now, Chambers says the product fits nicely in the product family and gives customers another big-data processing option. She also announced the company was releasing new connectors for Qlik for data visualization, Apache Solr for search and Mozenda …
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Tags : Analytics, Apps, should, Showdown, Simpler, smarter, Big Data Analytics