Advances in analytics and data management have practical effects on the world around us. These improvements are driving innovation in fast-changing industries such as healthcare and agriculture.
- By David Stodder
- July 21, 2016
Tunable consistency is one of the many points of differentiation between SQL and NoSQL databases. This article explains this important parameter and the tunable consistency options Cassandra provides.
- By William McKnight
- July 18, 2016
With the continuing push for more speed and for cloud offerings, integration platform-as-a-service is gaining traction in new ways.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- July 1, 2016
Evolving approaches to analytics and data management are driving users toward the data lake as a new way of managing certain data.
- By Philip Russom
- June 10, 2016
IT decision-makers weren't confident in the quality of their data 20 years ago, and they still aren't hopeful in 2016. Far from it, according to a new survey.
- By Steve Swoyer
- June 8, 2016
Finding common attributes to join customer data across multiple data sources is extremely important, but it can be time consuming and challenging. Thankfully, there are methods and tools that can help in this process.
- By Troy Hiltbrand
- June 6, 2016
There are plenty of natural obstacles to dealing with text, but those who feel threatened by advances in textual processing are inventing artificial obstacles as well.
- By Bill Inmon
- May 23, 2016
Effective data preparation depends on recognizing how to handle what we know and what we don't know about a set of data. Our goal as analytics professionals is to make less unknown and more known.
- By Troy Hiltbrand
- May 17, 2016