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Does Big Data Still Need Stacks?

The IT industry loves its stacks. First there was the LAMP stack, then the Hadoop stack became popular. Over the past five years, something called the Modern Data Stack has taken hold in our collective data psyche, and n Read more…

Pandas on GPU Runs 150x Faster, Nvidia Says

Data scientists and others who work in pandas may be interested to hear about a new release of Nvidia’s RAPIDS cuDF framework that it says results in a 150x performance boost for pandas running atop a GPU. Pandas is Read more…

A Peek at the Future of the Open Data Architecture

Hadoop may have fizzled out as a data platform, but it laid the groundwork for an open data architecture that continues to grow and evolve today, largely in the cloud. We got a peek at the future of this open data archit Read more…

Voltron Data Takes Flight to Unify Arrow Community

You may know of Apache Arrow as the fast in-memory data format used to accelerate data analytics and data science workloads. What you may not know is that one of the original creators of Arrow and a core member of Nvidia Read more…

Apache Arrow Takes ‘Flight’ with Big Data Net

A data transport framework released by the Apache Arrow community aims to alleviate some of the pain associated with accessing large data sets over networks. Apache Arrow Flight is described as a general-purpose, clie Read more…

Inside OmniSci’s Plans for Data Analytics Convergence

You may know OmniSci as the provider of a fast SQL-based database that runs on GPUs. But the company formerly known as MapD is moving beyond its GPU roots and is building a data platform that runs on CPUs and does machin Read more…

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