It happens to the best of us. You know your business is bursting with useful data, and you’ve only begun to scratch the surface. So you strike out to build an analytical platform, using all the great open-source tools you’ve been hearing so much about. First, you have...
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How to use Hadoop to mine business value from new types of data
Apache Hadoop has emerged as the leading technology for helping companies mine big data. And while every organization is different, their big data demands are often similar. Hadoop enables companies to collect and process massive amounts of data that was once thought...
Hadoop Big Data Java – Manufacturing scenario
Purpose: The purpose of this document is to explain how to apply the power of Hadoop Big Data platform in Manufacturing scenario. Challenge: Big data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand...
Is Hadoop a New Storage Paradigm?
According to historians of economic theory, there are two ways to define creative destruction. One is negative—that capitalist systems unleash forces that lead to their own demise. The other is positive—that those forces result in better products and services that...
Hadoop Tutorials: Using Hive with HBase
Here is another interesting use case that came up when I was working with one of our clients in the insurance industry. The client had enormous amount of claim data residing in multiple databases in SQL Server which were to be consolidated into one. Some of the...
Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?
Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is the de facto standard for processing big data. Almost all big software vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, or even Microsoft use it....
Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?
Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is the de facto standard for processing big data. Almost all big software vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, or even Microsoft use it....