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Big Data News: Convergence with Mapr and Faster Stateful Streaming Processes with Spark

Mapr on Impedance Mismatch and how convergence is achieved for layered architecture along with Databricks on using the new Spark API “mapWithState” for faster Stateful Spark Streaming As our big…
Uli Bethke February 5, 2016
Apache,

Big Data News: Streaming in the Extreme.. An evolution in Data Processing and Analytics

Google’s Dataflow have submitted a project proposal to open source Dataflow through the Apache Software Foundation along with MapR on Streaming across Data Centers. As another week comes to a…
Uli Bethke January 29, 2016
Apache,

Apache Myriad V0.1 release and Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland’s final 2015 event at Accenture

Will Apache Myriad’s release spark a Big Data Evolution?. . . and Storm, Kafka, Akka, and Prometheus took centre stage at HUG Ireland’s final 2015 event Once again, the team…
Uli Bethke December 18, 2015
Hadoop,

Big Data News: Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland’s morning briefing and MapR’s new Product Launch called “Streams”

HUG Ireland’s great morning briefing with Alexey Grishchenko and MapR is now directly competing with Apache Kafka Last week was a busy one in operations for the Sonra team with…
Uli Bethke December 11, 2015
Business Intelligence,

Big Data News: Apps Development with “JSON” and an Open Source “Spark” Library for Geospatial Analysis

Faster Big Data Apps Developments with Open Source JSON UI called “OJAI” and how the Spark Library “Magellan” will come to the rescue in Geo Spatial Analysis As the week…
Uli Bethke October 23, 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