The Ramp

If you ran an analysis, you may discover there is a good chance your big data project will not proceed according to plan. According to an…

“Google is living a few years in the future and sends the rest of us messages,” — Doug Cutting, Hadoop founder

Apache Spark continues to gain a lot of traction as companies launch or expand their big data initiatives. There is no doubt that it’s…

Editor’s note: If you would like to learn more about using Spark there is a free book titled Getting Started with Apache Spark: From…

Apache Spark is awesome. Python is awesome. This post will show you how to use your favorite programming language to process large datasets…

The faster questions can be asked the faster you can get answers. Waiting for data to be shipped off of servers to a central processing…

Note: If you’re interested in learning more about Apache Spark, download this free interactive ebook — Getting Started with Apache Spark…

Getting from point A to point B has been one of humanity’s greatest preoccupations throughout history. While we’ve developed new methods of…

Apache Spark is great for processing large amounts of data over large clusters, but wouldn’t it be great if you could process data in near…

Apache Spark has gotten a lot of attention for its fast processing of large amounts of data. But how does it get up to speed? The biggest…

What exactly is the Internet of Things? Put simply, the Internet of Things (IoT) connects devices such as everyday consumer objects and…

Sure, you’ve heard about NoSQL, but is it just another technology fad that’s all hype? What can you actually do with a NoSQL database? With…

If you’re in business, you need to know what’s going on both inside and outside your company operations. You need some kind of analytics to…

Google has set the standard for most of the world when it comes to running systems at scale. It has created a number of different…

The Obama administration plans to dedicate $215 million in the 2016 budget to the “Precision Medicine Initiative.” This project centers on…

Apache Hadoop unquestionably delivers ROI by increasing the flexibility of data management/storage, processing, and analytics abilities…

I read a lot of propaganda these days. Not in a national or international political sense, but within the business world. Here’s an…

In some circles today there is a sort of ‘Hadoop vs. RDBMS’ debate ongoing. Often the discussion casts Hadoop as the obvious heir apparent…

For the past 25 years, applications have been built using an RDBMS with a predefined schema that forces data to conform with a schema…

Companies everywhere are looking for ways to improve customer service. For example, companies with call-in support centers might track how…

Are you ready to start streaming all the events in your business? What happens to your streaming solution when you outgrow your single data…

In this week’s Whiteboard Walkthrough, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy and Architecture at MapR, discusses a business use case…

Processing data from social media streams and sensors devices in real time is becoming increasingly prevalent, and there are plenty of open…

If you’ve been reading about Apache Spark, you might be worried about whether you have to relearn all of your skills for using it to…

The distributed computation world has seen a massive shift in the last decade. Apache Hadoop showed up on the scene and brought with it new…

Stream processing is a power that has been added alongside Spark Core and its original design goal of rapid in-memory data processing…

To get value out of today’s big and fast data, organizations must evolve beyond traditional analytic cycles that are heavy with data…

If you read our recent blog post, “Spark 101: What Is It, What It Does, and Why It Matters,” you know that Spark is a general-purpose data…

Estimating the total cost of ownership (TCO) for Hadoop has been a challenge. Costs can be hidden or unanticipated during the planning and…