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Inside MapR’s Support for Kubernetes

MapR today announced that customers can now run and deploy applications on MapR's big data cluster utilizing the Kubernetes containerization technology. In addition to providing data statefulness, it also gives MapR cust Read more…

Which Programming Language Is Best for Big Data?

Nothing is quite so personal for programmers as what language they use. Why a data scientist, engineer, or application developer picks one over the other has as much to do with personal preference and their employers' IT Read more…

How Erasure Coding Changes Hadoop Storage Economics

The introduction of erasure coding with Hadoop 3.0 will allow users to cram up to 50% more data into the same cluster. That's great news for users who are struggling to store all their data. However, that storage boost c Read more…

Why 2018 Will Be All About the Data

Since big data roared onto the public stage in 2012, we've seen an accelerating pace of technological progress and prowess. Along with it, tech trends have come and gone. Once a rising star, Hadoop is now settling into a Read more…

What Will AI Bring in 2018? Experts Sound Off

Artificial intelligence had a breakout year in 2017. But considering the technological and business momentum, AI is poised to have an even bigger year. Here's a peek at what AI could bring us in 2018 year according to in Read more…

2018 Predictions: Opening the Big Data Floodgates

The pace of innovation in big data today is exceeded only by the actual volume of data generated. So how will the industry respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by huge pipes of data that will be opened up in Read more…

10 Key Big Data Trends That Drove 2017

2017 has come and (almost) gone. It was a memorable year, to be sure, with plenty of drama and unexpected happenings in terms of the technology, the players, and the application of big data and data science. As we gear u Read more…

A Decade into Big Data

2016 marked the 10-year anniversary of Hadoop, a name closely associated with “Big Data." Prior to the advent of Big Data, companies invested in solutions that were not forward-looking; they could only address the imme Read more…

MapR Takes Aim at DataOps with Platform 6.0

MapR today unveiled a new release of its converged data platform that's aimed at helping companies use emerging DataOps concepts to go from data science insight to positive business result in a speedy, reliable, and secu Read more…

In-Memory Database Goes ‘Translytical’

Database vendors continue to move computing and analytical processing closer to data as applications leverage more data types ranging from structured to those data sets that can be transformed to another data type, or po Read more…