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Big Data,

Big Data News: Greenplum and Eagle… The latest on Big Data and Open Source

Where the rubber meets the road... Greenplum goes open source and Ebay Eagle is now an Apache incubator project As another week draws to a close, there is a tingling…
Uli Bethke October 30, 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,

Big Data News: HyperLogLog with Spark and Open Source GZinga Compression

Exploring the performance enhancements of HyperLogLog on Spark and adding splittable and seekable features to Gzip in a new open source project called GZinga Life is never dull in big…
Uli Bethke October 16, 2015
Big Data,

Data discovery and the unfulfilled promises of self-service Business Intelligence

Self-service BI is all about allowing business users or non-technical staff to generate insights from data. It is about to make its breakthrough in the enterprise! Happy days. Unfortunately, this…
Uli Bethke October 12, 2015
Big Data,

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
Hadoop,

Big Data News – Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland event and Elasticsearch release… a week in review…

A smashing success at Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland with the October 6th event  @AIB Bank Centre and Elasticsearch released 2.0.0.-rcl for testing HUG Ireland had its October event at…
Uli Bethke October 9, 2015