Another choice for Hadoop
RainStor has just announced support for Hadoop, whereby you can use RainStor partitions within HDFS. This brings a number of advantages.
Alpine Data: the first real data mining solution for the Big Data generation
Data Mining is essential to the analysis of Big Data but traditional Data Mining only scales at a great cost, making the ROI less than compelling until now
Hadapt - Hadapt is the latest big data database offering
What makes Hadapt different is that it combines both Hadoop-based and relational storage
Governance and Hadoop - Informatica has just released HParser
There is a lack of governance around big data: Informatica is the first company (it won't be the last) to introduce a product to address this issue
Problems with Hadoop
This is part of the series about big data, discussing various issues, and their resolution, around Hadoop
What is big data?
The first of a series of articles on big data (What is Hadoop? was a preface).
What is Hadoop?
Since some people seem to think that Hadoop equates to big data it is pertinent to discuss the former before talking about the latter.
Hive, DataRush and Hadoop
Hive and Hadoop both have poor performance - Pervasive SOftware, with its DataRush technology, is doing something about that
Big Data Analytical Applications
A brief explanation of what applications to exploit Big Data currently look like and what they do which is different
Challenging Cloudera
Cloudera has been the default standard for enterprise Hadoop implementation but perhaps not any longer.