Overview: Self-service analytics software has been one of the trends in software development for some time. Conceptually, there is not much novelty about it, though. Self-service as a concept has already been applied to fast food joints, financial services and…
Overview In today’s big data era, we have heard about different tools, platforms etc. for managing big data and analytics. Each platform like Spark, Hadoop etc., has their own specialties and limitations. Big data applications are using different platforms based…
Overview Big data, data science, and big data analytics are perhaps some of the hottest terms in today’s technology world. But, at the same time there is a lot of misunderstanding and confusion about those terms. So people start thinking…
Overview The concept of crowd funding has been there for about a couple of years and it is gaining popularity. In this process, funds are raised for different projects, purposes or developments and it involves billions of dollars. So there…
Overview Self-service is a part of our daily lives. People are empowered to do their tasks themselves, like monetary transactions at an ATM, filling up gas from gas stations, check-in at an airport and many more similar activities. So, on…
Overview: Big data comes with big challenges. The data will keep on expanding with a tremendous velocity. The study has shown that almost 90 percent data has been generated in the last two years, so the challenge is to handle this…
Overview: In today’s technology world, software as a service (SaaS) is a common model. The service if offered to the subscribers as per need basis. Big data is also following the service model. In this article, I will talk about the…
Overview: The healthcare industry is growing at a faster pace than earlier and there is a synonymous increase in the demand for new & innovative medicines and patient care. In order to meet these rising demands, new technologies are being…
Overview: The Internet of Things (IoT) is the new reality that is going to penetrate into our lives. According to Gartner, the number of interconnected devices will increase to 6.4 billion in 2016, up by 30% from 2015, thus generating…
Overview: There are a bunch of working definitions for Big Data yet to me it is put as data collection so substantial and complex that it ends up troublesome or difficult to process those utilizing conventional databases. For a little…
Overview: As big data becomes one of the most important assets an enterprise can possess, enterprises are demanding more out of the data. Enterprises expect data to provide complex and multidimensional insights at high speeds. To provide such insights, companies…
Overview: Apache HBase is one of the most popular non-relational databases built on top of Hadoop and HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File system). It is also known as Hadoop database. As an Apache project, HBase is an open-source, versioned and distributed…
YARN Overview: Since hadoop version 0.23, MapReduce has changed significantly. It is now known as MapReduce 2.0 or YARN. MapReduce 2.0 is based on the concept of splitting the two major functionalities of job tracker – resource management and…
