Tag: Big Data
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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 EDWH architectures and big data architectures. Especially Stinger.next initiative with the goal of speeding up Hive and delivering SQL 2011 standard to use on Map / Reduce Hadoop clusters makes…
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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 files. But with RESTful APIs getting more attention in the last few years, there is a new way to get your data. The charm…
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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 of exams but with big data and analytics there are new possibilities to enhance the experience of learning as a whole. For example there is the possibility to…
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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 especially built to deal with huge amounts of data and they are called Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) databases. MPP database systems have been around for a longer…
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Data Scientist: Hype or Sexy?
Data Scientists seem to be everywhere nowadays. This title has seen a huge increase in appearences in job descriptions, as Indeed.com demostrates in its data. There are several sites and articles that even describe the job as sexy: Forbes Harvard Business Review The combination of handling Big Data and Analytics is what makes this title…