Tag: performance
Jun 28, 2019 |
The digital economy comprises business moments, critical fractions of seconds when lightning-fast chain reactions take place that transform data into insights and turn opportunities into business values. As data has increased in both velocity and volume, the common practice to support this growth has been to add more cache. Read more…
Jan 16, 2019 |
Developers have a large number of databases to choose from today, particularly when it comes to newer NoSQL databases. Figuring out which databases excel in different areas can be tough, but the folks at Altoros aimed to help to narrow the field by benchmarking the three leading NoSQL database solutions, Couchbase, DataStax Enterprise, and MongoDB. Read more…
Jan 12, 2018 |
I started working on big data infrastructure in 2009 when I joined Cloudera, which at the time was a small startup with about 10 engineers. It was a fun place to work. Read more…
Oct 18, 2016 |
You can’t really go wrong these days when it comes to picking a SQL-on-Hadoop engine. As long as you stick to the mainstream open source products like Hive, Impala, Spark SQL, and Presto, your SQL queries are likely running 2-4x faster than they did earlier this year, without changing your queries or buying more hardware. Read more…
Sep 13, 2016 |
What do you do when your Spark or Hive job runs like molasses? If you’re like most end-users who lack in-depth technical skills, the answer is “not much.” Now a startup named Unravel Data is working to show you what’s actually going on in the cluster, and provide some configuration recommendations and automatic fixes as well. Read more…
Aug 4, 2015 |
Hadoop was created to run on cheap commodity computers connected by slow Ethernet networks. But as Hadoop clusters get bigger and organizations press the upper limits of performance, they’re finding that specialized gear, such as solid state drives and InfiniBand networks, can pay dividends. Read more…
Sep 11, 2012 |GPUs have stirred some vicious waves in the supercomputing community, and these same performance boosts are being explored for large-scale data mining by a number of enterprise users. During our conversation with NVIDIA's Tesla senior manager for high performance computing, Sumit Gupta, we explored how traditional data... Read more…
Jun 15, 2012 |We wrap up this week with news about a new high performance, data-intensive supercomputer from SGI, new Hadoop announcements, including those from Hortonworks, Datameer, and Karmasphere, some software enhancements for big data infrastructure from ScaleOut and some other startup goodness--all with an eye on next week's International.... Read more…
Jun 13, 2012 |In the wake of their competitors being gobbled up by giants and their announcement today of a new connector to Hadoop, we step back and look at how analytical platforms like ParAccel's are handling large amounts of complex data for companies like CARFAX, which recently put the company in the driver's seat following limitations from their legacy.... Read more…
Mar 27, 2012 |While solar energy pioneers are still seeking ways to tweak the price performance issue, others are focusing on less obvious potential solutions. One such group of solar cell researchers at MIT is addressing the problem of current solar technolo.... Read more…
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