When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced ...

Big data technologies differ from traditional RDBMS in one basic and very important respect, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. RDBMS technology was vertically integrated, ...

Talend is making all its commercial big data components available through open source on its tooling development platform. Talend Open Studio for Big Data is intended to enable data scientists to ...

Big data has taken center stage in recent years, with companies in a huge range of industries beginning to understand the opportunities it can bring. Yet, I find there is still a lack of understanding ...

'A lot of large [general contractors] are still running [Microsoft] Excel spreadsheets on their core systems," says Bassem Hamdy, chief marketing officer and vice president at construction software ...

Introduction to Big Data (DT102) provides the fundamentals needed to allow organizations to turn data into actionable information. Starting with an overview of big data, which covers key enterprise ...

In today’s data-driven economy, big data has become a critical asset for organizations of every size. Big data simply means the massive, diverse streams of information companies generate — and the ...

Here's a round-up of this week's Big Data news from Looker, RethinkDB, Talend and others, featuring self-service data preparation, RethinkDB on Windows, Spark- and Presto-based BI, a turnkey data ...

You may have heard of this Apache Hadoop thing, used for Big Data processing along with associated projects like Apache Spark, the new shiny toy in the open source movement. They're among the most ...