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Two Use Cases of Data Discovery Tools

Data discovery tools are a relatively recent phenomenon as can be witnessed by the fact that there is no separate Gartner Magic Quadrant for them. Data discovery tools allow users…
Uli Bethke October 12, 2015
Business Intelligence,

Big Data News – LinkedIn’s Ops team raises it’s Hadoop game with “Rewinder”

LinkedIn’s new “Rewinder” tool outshines Apache Resource Manager and Job History Server on its Hadoop clusters… SIREn Solutions announces Kibi Another week has passed where the team at Sonra have…
Uli Bethke September 25, 2015
Business Intelligence,

Big Data News – Meetups & Spark Releases, the Open Source Community in motion

Spark 1.5 release to Hadoop User Group Ireland events, open source news of note this week So another week reaches a close and we have been busy here at Sonra…
Uli Bethke September 11, 2015
Business Intelligence,

A Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland Event – Data Discovery and Self-Service Analytics

You are cordially invited to a big data event in Dublin City! Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland are hosting an event sponsored by Sonra Intelligence Ltd in Bank of Ireland,…
Uli Bethke September 1, 2015
Big Data,

Self-Service Analytics in the Data Lake

Deriving Value from your data... We all know that decision makers and analysts need quick access to all of the structured and unstructured data in an enterprise. Typically this data…
fsd_admin July 23, 2015
Business Intelligence,

Exadata, Exalytics, SAP HANA and the multi billion dollar question.

Recently there has been a lot of noise around in memory databases and how Exadata, Exalytics and SAP HANA compare to each other. Here are my two cents on the…
Uli Bethke November 27, 2012