British mathematician and entrepreneur, Clive Humby coined the phrase “Data is the new oil” in 2006. Fifteen years later, the analogy still holds true. This is especially true for large businesses who ...

Integrating distributed, in-memory computing with distributed caching can easily extend LINQ semantics to create important new capabilities for real-time analytics on fast-changing data. In the age of ...

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Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

The expanding volume and complexity of modern datasets have necessitated innovative approaches to data query processing and visualisation. Contemporary methods must efficiently extract actionable ...

Hadoop is a notoriously difficult system on which to run interactive queries. JethroData developed a SQL-on-Hadoop engine that acts as a business intelligence-on-Hadoop acceleration layer that speeds ...

One of the most conspicuous examples of big data in action is Google’s data-aggregating tool Google Flu Trends (GFT). The ...

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AtScale, the first company to provide enterprises with a fast and secure self-service Business Intelligence platform ...

The new Amazon Athena tool from Amazon Web Services Inc.(AWS) enables serverless queries of large amounts of data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), obviating the need to spin up ...

Google wants to make all blockchain data associated with Ethereum easily accessible for people to study. It’s doing that by making all Ethereum data sets available through BigQuery, Google’s ...

Big Data is supposed to level the business playing field, but up until now it has not. Because even though it’s cheaper to store data in Hadoop or to work with open source NoSQL in theory, it’s too ...