Overview – To put it simply, silos are what prevent an organization from achieving its broader objectives, and more than often, at least cause delay in achieving them. Pretty much all sorts of organizations, be it big or small, have…
Revisit – Hadoop 2.0 (YARN) Framework
Introduction Since the time when Big Data was introduced it has gone through multiple phases of evolution. Hadoop was introduced in 2005 with some initial features such as the MapReduce processing engine which allowed large scale data processing workloads distributed…
Inside NoSQL – Not only SQL
Overview – NoSQL stands for Not only SQL, which means a database with some extended features of RDBMS. Today databases like NoSQL are gaining popularity in the enterprise. One of the most known examples of NoSQL database is MongoDB. Its…
Exploring Big Data trends in the coming years
Author: Kaushik Pal Overview – Big data is going to come in a big way in the coming years. It will also have a significant impact in the analytics world. Big data technology and platform will have a lot of…
Big data and AI need each other
Overview: To anyone applying AI in any form, the response to the heading above might be “Duh!” That’s an obvious statement to those engrossed at the coalface, but for many others (especially on the client side), they have yet to…
Digital Transformation and Big data and analytics can Improve Customer Experience
Overview Digital transformation is the key area to improve customer experience. Big data and analytics are just the tools to help in the process of digital transformation. In earlier days, customer behaviors on the websites were deemed to be something…
Impact of Big Data in Medicine and pharmaceutical industry
Overview In today’s world, a huge volume of information is available in medication. This medication data can be utilized to construct improved and efficient well being profiles of individual patients. And, such an organized patient profile can be used to…
Big Data and Education Industry
Overview: Big data has been driving revolutionary changes in education. There hardly remains an area in education not impacted by big data. You can notice the changes in the ways educational institutions are governed, course quality is managed and student…
Big Data characteristics and pain points
Overview Big data is based on three most important characteristics, known as volume, velocity and veracity. It comes in different forms and structure. Big data analytics is having significant impact in business decision. But it comes with some pain points.…
Use of Big Data in Smart City Projects
Overview: There has been a lot of activity around the concept of Smart City for some time. Cities are being identified as future smart cities. Theoretically at least, smart cities can fundamentally change our lives at many levels such as…
How Open Data Platform simplifies Hadoop adoption?
Overview The Open Data Platform (ODP) is an industry initiative focused on simplifying the adoption of Apache Hadoop by the Enterprise and enabling Big Data solutions to thrive with better ecosystem interoperability. It builds on the strengths of the Apache…
Measuring the ROI in Hadoop adoption
Overview: Nowadays, people seem to be really misinformed about Hadoop, mainly due to lots of half-truths that are fluttering about it in the market. However, all these half-truths were normal as Hadoop is said to be one of the best…
SQL on Hadoop – How does it work?
Overview: SQL on Hadoop is a group of analytical application tools that combine the SQL-style querying and processing of data with the most recent Hadoop data framework elements. The emergence of SQL on Hadoop is an important development for big…