Tag: real-time analytics
Speed of the Essence for ‘Machine Data’ Analytics
The ability to automate the analysis of "machine data" is most widely leveraged to speed IT operations along with use cases such as data security, a new industry survey finds, while accelerating the analysis of ephemeral Read more…
2017 Is the Year of AI. Or Is It?
The media often likes to proclaim "The Year of This" or "The Year of That." With the greater attention given to advancing capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning, it seemed like a no-brainer to decla Read more…
Exactly Once: Why It’s Such a Big Deal for Apache Kafka
Organizations building real-time stream processing systems on Apache Kafka will be able to trust the platform to deliver each messages exactly once when they adopt new Kafka technology planned to be unveiled this spring, Read more…
Yelp Open Sources Data Pipeline That Saved It $10M
Yelp today open sourced a key piece of code that helped it migrate from a monolithic code base to a distributed services-based architecture. Called Data Pipeline, the Python-based product saved the crowd-sourced review w Read more…
RISELab Replaces AMPLab with Secure, Real-Time Focus
UC Berkeley AMPLab will shut its doors in December after six years of delivering major technological innovations like Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, and Alluxio. Taking its place is the RISELab, which will focus its efforts Read more…
Fresh Streaming Data: Get It While It’s Hot
Streaming data technology that's been simmering on the backburner for the past few years will be the main entrée at this week's Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City. There's a profound shift currently un Read more…
Commercial Kafka Distro Gets Global Smarts
Companies operating multiple Apache Kafka clusters in on-premise and cloud data centers will benefit from a handful of new enterprise-level features unveiled at the Strata + Hadoop World conference today by Confluent, th Read more…
MemSQL Delivers an ‘Exactly Once’ Real-Time Pipeline
MemSQL today unveiled a new release of its in-memory relational database that can process a real-time flow of messages from Apache Kafka using "exactly once" semantics. The NewSQL database accomplished the feat by creati Read more…
SnappyData Gets Funded for Spark-GemFire Combo
SnappyData today announced it has received $3.65 million in Series A funding to build a business around its real-time analytics platform that combines Apache Spark, Pivotal's GemFire data grid, and an innovative data app Read more…
Spark Streaming: What Is It and Who’s Using It?
A recent study of over 1,400 Spark users conducted by Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Spark, showed that compared to 2014, 56 percent more Spark users globally ran Spark Streaming applications in 2015. Read more…
What’s Driving the Rise of Real-Time Analytics
Hadoop gave us a taste of the types of insights big data analytics can deliver, and provided a competitive advantage to early adopters. But as data volumes grow, as the time-to-insight window shrinks, and as technology c Read more…
Intel Says Upgraded Haswells Will Speed Analytics
The new Xeon processors unveiled today by Intel will find their way into a number of applications. But one of the most prominent uses will be powering the next-generation of real-time analytics, the chip giant says. Encr Read more…
FPGA System Smokes Spark on Streaming Analytics
Technologists with decades of experience building field-programmable gate array (FPGA) systems for the federal government today unveiled a commercial FPGA offering it claims holds 100x performance advantage over Apache S Read more…
Fujitsu Adding Column-Oriented Processing Engine to PostgreSQL
Fujitsu Laboratories last week announced that it's developed a column-oriented data storage and processing engine that can quickly analyze large amounts of data stored on a PostgreSQL database. The technology, which util Read more…
How Big Data Tech Is Bridging the Analytical-Transactional Divide
Time was, production IT systems lived in two main camps: analytical and transactional. Transactional systems (OLTP) ran in real-time on relational databases, and analytical (OLAP) systems ran in batch mode on more exotic Read more…
Hadoop Labor Update: Cloudera Talks Impala 2.0 as Hortonworks Previews Kafka
Say what you will about Hadoop (and we do), the big data platform is evolving at an incredible rate. This week, two of the biggest Hadoop distributors, Hortonworks and Cloudera, shared how they're working to improve two Read more…
DataTorrent RTS Clocks In at 1.5B Events per Second
What would you do with a system that could process 1.5 billion events per second? That’s the mind-boggling rate at which DataTorrent’s Real-Time Streaming (RTS) offering for Hadoop was recently benchmarked. Now that Read more…
HP Breathes New Life into Real-Time Platform
HP made waves last year with its sky high bid and win on real-time analytics platform vendor, Vertica. In an effort to bring the platform up to date, the development team announced a series of enhancements to bring a new level of aesthetic.... Read more…