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A Look at SparkSQL

If you’ve been reading about Apache Spark, you might be worried about…

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Big Intelligence: Measuring the ROI of Your Hadoop Big Data Project

Big Data projects, like any other business investment, need to prove their…

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Four and a Half Types of NoSQL Databases, and When to Use Them

The primary advantages NoSQL has over RDBMSs is horizontal scaling and data…

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Calculating the Soft Costs of Hadoop

Estimating the total cost of ownership (TCO) for Hadoop has been a…

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Hadoop and Spark: Better Together

The various online reports about the end of Hadoop as a big…

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Apache Spark Use Cases

Sure, Apache Spark looks cool, but does it live up to the…

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Game-Changing Real-time Uses for Apache Spark

Apache Spark, hosted on Hadoop, is great for processing large amounts of…

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Spark vs. Hadoop: Not Enemies, but Sidekicks

While you might have been hearing about Apache Spark and all of…

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Big Intelligence: BI Meets Big Data, with Apache Drill

Welcome to a whole new world of data exploration—a world where SQL…

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