Overview: Modern big data tools like Apache Spark and Apache Kafka enable fast processing and real-time streaming for smarter ...

One of the major barriers to any successful Big Data project is mastering all of the technologies needed to make it happen. Big Data has evolved into a mish-mash of technologies, with Hadoop at the ...

Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management software and data analytics tools – all critical components of an effective operational or analytical data system. But all those ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hospitals need to move from a lagging reactive traditional business intelligence and statistics stance into a leading proactive analytics approach. Put another way: It’s time for the ...

Back in the early 1990s, you would sometimes hear this gag: “Two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Although wildly inaccurate, this ...

A data-processing solution from Mesosphere leverages Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra -- but eschews Hadoop -- for enterprise level real-time big-data needs Mention big-data tools like Spark and Kafka to ...

Over at Enterprise Storage Forum, Dell’s Jeff Layton continues his series of features looking at Big Data processing components with a look at the specifically eight classes of the Application Stack, ...

Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management and integration software, and data analytics tools—all critical components of an effective operational or analytical data system. But all ...