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Hadoop Survey Shows Spark Coming of Age in 2016
Apache Spark, which has been shaking up the Apache Hadoop ecosystem for a couple years now, will come of age this year, moving from a talking point into enterprise deployment, according to a new Hadoop survey from Syncsort Inc. Interest in Spark …
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Picking the Right SQL-on-Hadoop Tool for the Job
SQL is, arguably, the biggest workload many organizations run on their Hadoop clusters. And there's good reason why: The combination of a familiar interface (SQL) along with a modern computing architecture (Hadoop) enables people to manipulate and …
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3 Ways Hadoop Can Minimize Security Risks
According to Ted Dunning, chief application architect at MapR Technologies, it's possible to get in front of attacks by analyzing all network event data with tools such as Apache Spark running on a real-time Hadoop platform, and to do so economically.
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NewVantage Big Data Executive Survey 2014: Corporate Big Data Investment …
Executives report that their corporate investments in Big Data are projected to grow from 35% to 75% by 2017 for investments greater than $ 10MM, and by a remarkable 6% to 28% for investments greater than $ 50MM. “Big Data was a new topic just a few …
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Twitter: why #SoggyFries make for a tasty future in big–data revenue
If you've ever tweeted in anger after being served soggy chips in a restaurant, you may be fuelling Twitter's growing business in selling big data to businesses. At least, that's according to the company's president of global revenue Adam Bain …
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