Real-time Hadoop analytics: ScaleOut turns on in-memory techOpen-source big-data platform Hadoop excels at batch-mode processing at scale but it was never designed for real-time analytics. ScaleOut Software has middleware that it thinks addresses the issue.April 16, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hadoop's Tez: Why winning Apache's top level status mattersThis week's announcement by the Apache Software Foundation of top-level project status for the Tez framework is a significant step, according to Hortonworks' Shaun Connolly.July 23, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
HP software chief: Big data role gives Autonomy a boostAfter the storm generated by the takeover of Autonomy, Hewlett-Packard software boss George Kadifa says momentum is building behind the big data analytics firm's technology.December 18, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hadoop's rise: Why you don't need petabytes for a big data openingPeople are often hung up on the volume aspect of big data but other factors can be just as telling in the issues they raise for business.April 10, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hadoop security: Hortonworks buys XA Secure – and plans to turn it open sourceHadoop software and services company Hortonworks is sticking to its pure open source philosophy in its acquisition of XA Secure, which it will hand back to the Apache community.May 15, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
How Couchbase 4.0 is cranking up its developer appealThe latest release of open-source document store Couchbase is aiming to make life easier for developers with, among other things, a new SQL-based query language.October 6, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
MongoDB 2.6 hits general availability – so what's in it?The latest incarnation of the open-source NoSQL database offers a range of new features designed to appeal to developers and businesses.April 8, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
BI startup Looker notches up $30m injection for expansionRising software-as-a-service business-intelligence firm Looker almost triples its funding to pay for its next growth phase.March 11, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
With IBM Power8 deal and Oracle backing for Cypher project, graph database Neo4j 2.3 is now outOn top of new features in the latest release of the graph database, Neo4j is being tuned for IBM hardware while Neo's query language Cypher gets its own open-source project.October 21, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data Analytics
Big data: Why most businesses just don't get itBig data could be the answer to all their problems but the trouble is most businesses may be failing to ask the right questions, according to analyst firm Gartner.February 15, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data