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…
Role of Big Data in User Authentication
Overview Password-based and two-factor and multifactor authentication processes have not been able to able provide protection to systems and data as well as was expected due to various reasons. Password-based authentication is too fragile and two-factor and multifactor authentication processes…
Exploring Automation and Big Data Initiatives
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…
Big Data Success in the Cloud Platform
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…
Want to know about Big Data myths?
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…
Is big data influencing crowd funding industry?
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…
Exploring Big Data and Self-Service Analytics
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…
Data Center Challenges with Big Data
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…
Big data (Hadoop) as a service – How does it work?
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…
Do you know biggest blockchain myths?
Overview Every new technology and innovation comes with a lot of myths and misconceptions. Similarly, Blockchain (a new distributed ledger technology platform) has also raised a lot of myths and doubts. These misconceptions are emerging because, blockchain is still at…
Pairing of IOT and Hadoop
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…
The Escalating Scope of Big Data Analytics
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…