Big Data and Data Warehouse Architecture
Further development and new additions to the Hadoop framework, such as Stinger from HortonWorks or Impala from Cloudera try to bridge the gap between traditional... Read more.
Comparing Stinger to Impala
With Hadoop 2.0 and the new additions of Stinger and Impala I did a (not representive) test of the performance on a Virtual Box running on my desktop computer. It... Read more.
SQL on Hadoop: Facebook’s Presto
Earlier this month Facebook open sourced its own product for using SQL on Hadoop. It is called Presto and is something like Facebook’s answer to Cloudera’s... Read more.
SQL and Hadoop
Bringing SQL to Hadoop has been one of the major trends in Big Data these last twelve months. Reason enough for me to take a closer look at that scene right now.... Read more.
REST (Representational state transfer) APIs and Big Data
Getting data, huge amounts of data, out of some systems tends to be quite a hazzle sometimes. Often you are required to use techniques such as FTP or SSH for transfering... Read more.
Big Data in Learning
There are many fields in which big data can improve results. One of these being (e-)learning. Until recently the focus on analysing learning lay on analysing results... Read more.
Hadoop and MPP
With Big Data Map/Reduce is always the first term that comes into mind. But it’s not the only way to handle large amounts of data. There are databasesystems... Read more.
Visualization: Enhancing the Palo Suite with NVD3.js
After my previous post How to visualize data? I was unsatisfied with the visualization provided by the Palo Suite provided by Jedox. This could have several reasons,... Read more.
How to visualize data?
Data visualization is something like an art. How to make results from your research in data easy to understand by management, business users or just everyone out... Read more.
Data Science Tools
What tools are used for Data Science? There are a lot of them out there and in this post I want to tell you about the ones I currently use or used before. KNIME... Read more.