One feature of the big data revolution is the acknowledgement that a single database management system architecture cannot meet all needs. For instance, if you need a system that can reliably process ...

Big data is a moving target, and it comes in waves: before the dust from each wave has settled, new waves in data processing paradigms rise. Streaming, aka real-time / unbounded data processing, is ...

With Big Data, what we’re seeing is a separation of two functions historically handled in the database, explains Datameer CEO Stefan Groschupf in a recent video. “I think the really big observation is ...

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The nice thing about open source projects and standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. And on January 10, the Apache community welcomed Beam as its "="" project"=""> (getting top ...