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Rethinking Operational Analytics on Relational DBs

When it comes to picking a platform for big data analytics, there are as many options as there are types of analytics. Hadoop scales to the moon, but it may be overkill for lighter weight analytics on production data. Di Read more…

Meet the Avant-Garde of New Relational Databases

In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the new "avant-garde" of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts of scalability and elastici Read more…

Apache Spark Continues to Spread Beyond Hadoop

Apache Spark is most often thought of as a faster replacement for MapReduce, the batch-oriented programming framework that enabled first-gen Hadoop to catch traction 10 years ago. Indeed, Spark was initially created with Read more…