Since June when Yahoo! released kicked its baby birdy….err….elephant out of the nest (or what elephant babies sleep in) the information management market has been patiently waitng to see what HortonWorks would bring to the rapidly growing NoSQL market. Unfortunately, it happened to be school yard fight with competitor Cloudera that went a little like, …
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NoSQL is a hot topic. If you are a technologist, unless you have been trapped in the basement with your red swingline and no internet connection for a year or two, you’ve heard about NoSQL. The technology was thrust into the spotlight around 2008 due to adoption by internet giants such as Facebook, Google and …
Read more »Oracle’s NoSQL Change of Heart The team at Oracle has been doing some thinking and decided that maybe, just maybe, they were a tiny bit harsh in their assessment of NoSQL. Just a few months ago, the company released a 15-page white paper, Debunking the NoSQL Hype (now conveniently removed from the Oracle site),which explains …
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Gigabytes and terabytes are now small potatoes. We measure big data in petabytes. Our smart phones, tablets, highway sensors, physician visits and social media interactions will drive the creation of more data in the next few years than have been created in the entire history of humanity. Big data is becoming so disruptive, it is …
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