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The 5 Foundational Characteristics of a Next-Gen Big Data Platform

An enterprise-grade, next-gen big data platform must exhibit five key capabilities and features in order to sustain innovation at the application layer.

Teradata Takes Aster to Hadoop, AWS, Accelerates Analytics for IoT

This week, Teradata announced four new Analytics Accelerators for IoT and made good on a promise to port its Aster discovery platform to Hadoop -- and to Amazon's AWS.

Data Digest: Analytics for Data Storage, Structure for Data Scientists, Build Scalable Applications

These articles explain analytics that work across multiple storage solutions, how to structure a department to best support data scientists, and what to focus on when building scalable applications.

Clash of the Titans: Hadoop versus Spark

Because Spark can run independently of Hadoop, some see the two as competitors. However, these technologies can complement each other depending on enterprise needs.

Companies, Users, and Surveys Agree: Spark Is Hot, Hot, Hot

Spark is a hot topic right now. So hot, in fact, it's surpassed Hadoop as the open source technology with the most widespread appeal. Whether it can sustain this momentum is another matter.

The Trouble with Spark

Spark boasts a lot of processing power but still lacks maturity. There are difficulties in keeping it running, and its troubles with workload variety make it problematic for production applications.

Power BI, Embedded App Development, and the Problem of BI Disuse

Microsoft's new Power BI Embedded service gets at a significant issue for data management professionals: anemic BI uptake, what we could call BI disuse.

The End of Hadoop as We've Known It?

Gartner's Merv Adrian dropped a bombshell last month, predicting that Hadoop as we know it may soon cease to exist.

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