I recently listened to a pitch by a vendor that was well spun. Let’s use this post to consider some spin around what is not metadata and what is a proprietary interface. The vendor described how they stored photos… I pointed out that photos were clearly not metadata… so they went on to talk about the…
I want to soften my criticism of Greenplum‘s announcement of HAWQ a little. This post by Merv Adrian convinced me that part of by blog here looked at the issue of whether HAWQ is Hadoop too simply. I could outline a long chain of logic that shows the difficulty in making a rule for what…
First, you should look at Google’s Spanner paper here… this is the next-gen from Google and once it is embraced by the open source community it will put even more pressure on the big data DBMSs. Also have a look at YARN the next Map/Reduce… more pressure still… Next… you can imagine that the conventional database…
Here is a sound bite on Big Data I composed for another source… Big Data is relative. For some firms Big Data will be measured in petabytes and for other in hundreds of gigabytes. The point is that very detailed data provides the vital statistics that quantify the health of your business. To store and…
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