Two sessions focused on the popular column-based NoSQL data store Cassandra, which was created by Facebook, and later used by high-volume sites such as Twitter. Although neither of the sessions was ...

The big data landscape includes many different buckets. Hadoop and MapReduce programming applies to offline data, where everything is processed in a batch. The NoSQL category is rather coarse and ...

Big data is comprised of the well-known 3 V’s: volume, velocity, and variety. Traditionally, when there has been an influx of new data, systems have scaled up. Recently though with the variety and ...

A new report from Forrester predicts the big data market growing at nearly 13% rate over the next five years, with “non-relational” platforms like Hadoop and NoSQL segments growing nearly twice as ...

According to the “three V’s” definition of big data (Volume, Velocity, Variety) big data is as much about the increasing rate of data requisition as it is about increasing volumes. Big data and NoSQL ...

As the SQL and NoSQL worlds continue to converge in the pursuit of comprehensive Big Data analytics solutions, a Silicon Valley start-up wants to provide a bridge between the two with RESTful APIs.

There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...

Cohesity also is expanding its data protection and management capabilities with native Kubernetes container and Microsoft OneDrive capabilities. Data protection software and appliance developer ...

The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

In today's era of cheap, highly available storage capacity, data keeps getting bigger with no end in sight. This bounty brings with it both benefits and difficulties. Organizations have more ...