Big Data is still an emerging field, with far too many products, promises and pratfalls. Despite all that, this is the season when industry pundits make fearless predictions about how Big Data will evolve in 2016. Many prognosticators take a high-risk approach, titillating the reader with highly speculative projections. If it comes true, the pundit […]
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The Hadoop ecosystem has a well-known hole: there is no good tool for near-real time analytics on Big Data. For example, suppose you have 500 milliseconds to calculate the average temperature reading from a set of sensors, based on some ad hoc user-specified criteria such as location, time and sensor type. Pre-aggregation is not feasible, […]
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It seems Hadoop is the ‘flavor of the month’ in IT these days, and commands conflicting headlines month after month. What is Hadoop, and where did it come from? Like many great innovations, Hadoop was created to solve an entirely different problem – building a web search engine. In 1999, Doug Cutting developed Lucene, a […]
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