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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
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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
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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
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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
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Big Data News – Innovative Innovations on Hadoop by Twitter & LinkedIn…

From Twitter’s innovative Namespace Design to LinkedIn’s Gobblin 0.5.0 release, which now includes Apache Kafka integration The team at Sonra have been impressed by the innovative developments reviewed through the…
Uli Bethke October 2, 2015
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Big Data News – Predict Conference 2015… A Premier Big Data event!

From Predict Conference 2015 to Data Mining and Innovation at Twitter There is no doubt that before I went to represent Sonra at Predict Conference 2015, which was organised by…
Uli Bethke September 18, 2015