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Graph Databases Ascend to the Cloud

Bucking the trend toward open source databases, cloud vendors continue to promote proprietary graph databases that combine the ability to handle multiple data models with the distribution of data across different cloud r Read more…

Kafka Gets Server, API Upgrades

The latest feature release from the Apache Kafka stream processing community includes server support for time-based search along with more than 200 bug fixes and other improvements. Confluent Inc., founded by the team Read more…

3 Major Things You Should Know About Apache Spark 1.6

Hundreds of fixes and new features made their way into Apache Spark 1.6, which was announced last week and is expected to ship in mid-December. But here are the three main things in Spark 1.6 that are most likely to affe Read more…

Mapping Startup Leverages Machine Vision

A Swedish mapping startup that uses machine vision to stitch together street-level photos is ramping up a service that uses proprietary algorithms to connect crowd-sourced photos of street scenes "over space and time." Read more…

Cloud-based ‘Deep’ Learning Tool Explains Predictions

"Deep" machine learning technology said by its creator to have been used by large customers over the last five years to make high-stakes advertising decisions is being released to the masses as a cloud web application an Read more…

Enigma.io Claims to Demystify Data; Receives Round

Enigma.io says that they have sanitized and curated over 100,000 streams of publicly available data and have reportedly been granted $1.1 million dollars in venture equity seed money to take their big data project to the next level. Read more…

MapR Update Extends Hadoop Accessibility

This week MapR Technologies, announced a new version of its Hadoop distribution, including several bug fixes as well as new accessibility options. Among these are the ability to try a virtual MapR cluster as well as expanded application opportunities. Read more…

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