Monthly Archives: August 2013

When Big Data meets Fast Data

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

2001 Gartner research article by Doug Laney titled “3-D Data Management: Controlling Data Volume, Velocity, and Variety” now serves as the construct for big data. Fast data is often related to data velocity – that is defined as the rate … Continue reading →

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Hadoop Invades My Desk

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

I gave Hadoop elephant an Indian makeover with red and gold – acrylics on paper.  

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Spring for Apache Hadoop

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

Hadoop has a poor out of the box programming model. Applications often become spaghetti code in the form of scripts calling Hadoop command line applications. Spring aims to simplify Hadoop applications by leveraging several Spring eco-system projects. Spring for Apache … Continue reading →

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Pivotal Platform – where Cloud meets Big Data

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

There is a major shift towards cloud computing that includes both infrastructure transformation and transformation of application development and its usage. These simply require new methods. Pivotal platform helps organizations in these transformations. Pivotal enables organizations to build a new … Continue reading →

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HAWQ Soars Higher

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

HAWQ is a modern distributed and parallel query processor on top of HDFS that gives enterprises the best of both worlds: high-performance query processing with SQL, and scalable open storage. When the data is directly stored on HDFS, it provides … Continue reading →

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