Paige Roberts

10 Articles

Four Really Real Meanings of Real-Time

Our director of engineering told me that she had a customer ask if…

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4 Reasons Why Big Data Analytics Projects Fail, or Do They?

A few months back, I was presenting with a friend at a…

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Schema on Read vs Schema on Write and Why Shakespeare Hates Me

A couple of months ago, I found myself without a full time…

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Actian DataFlow, the Little Hadoop Engine That Could, But Probably Won’t

In Hadoop’s ecosystem of massively parallel cluster computing frameworks, Actian DataFlow is…

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Hadoop Can’t Do That

I just got back from a little executive summit conference in Dallas…

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In-Memory Analytic Databases Are so Last Century

In an article written last year by an industry analyst that I respect,…

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Not All Hadoop Users Drop ACID

In the age of businesses with data that lives on dozens or…

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Big Data Scientists Are Bridge Builders

Kathryn Kelly recently put up an excellent post titled Data Scientists Not Required:…

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Predictive Analytic Strategies to Out-Predict the Competition

Predictive analytics is a method to study the past and, using a…

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A Different Strategy for Solvable Problems in Big Data Predictive Analytics

I had a long conversation with James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions…

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