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A Look at the Graph Database Landscape
Graph databases are the fastest growing category in all of data management, according to DB-Engines.com, a database consultancy. Since seeing early adoption by companies including Twitter, Facebook and Google, graphs hav Read more…
First Look at Scio, a Scala API for Apache Beam
Apache Beam has emerged as a powerful new framework for building and running batch and streaming applications in a unified manner. In its first iteration, it offered APIs for Java and Python. Thanks to the new Scio API f Read more…
Tools Boost Access to Product Data
A new set of features is designed to give application developers greater access to critical product data that in many enterprises is viewed only by small groups of employees. Amplitude, a product analytics specialist, Read more…
Four Open Source Data Projects To Watch Now
While open source isn't the sole source of creativity and progress in big data, it's a major driver in the space. Market-shaking tech like Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, and MongoDB all began as obscure open source projects backe Read more…
Twitter Ranking Tweets With Machine Learning
Machine learning is entering production at Twitter as a way of ranking tweets and boosting engagement. Twitter engineers this week unveiled the social media platform's ranking algorithm driven by deep neural networks. Read more…
AI-Powered Bots Gearing Up to Serve You
Get yourself ready for the bot invasion. Powered by artificial intelligence and fueled with big data, bots are gearing up to serve people the data, insights, and services they demand. Bots are not new. Anybody who's i Read more…
U.S. Visa Program Would Scan Social Media Data
Data industry groups are cautioning the government to take a middle course on a proposal to collect social media data about foreign travelers entering the U.S. under a visa waiver program. At issue is whether visitors Read more…
Concord Claims 10x Performance Edge on Spark Streaming
Organizations that are looking for a stream processing engine upon which to build fast data applications featuring high-throughput and low-latency may want to check out Concord, a new framework that emerged from the ad-t Read more…
Twitter Buys Another Machine Learning Startup
Machine learning continues to make inroads among hyper-scalers who are increasingly using it to train rather then program algorithms. As if the technology needed any more promotion, Twitter announced its acquisition of a Read more…
Cutting On Random Digital Mutations and Peak Hadoop
In a wide-ranging Strata + Hadoop World talk on Wednesday that reminds us why we like Doug Cutting so much, the father of Hadoop riffed on the evolution of big data tech, the power of open source, the promise of Flink, a Read more…