Business Intelligence Architecture
According to the Asghar et al. (2009), Business Intelligence (BI) is divided into two main parts: (a) BI dimension and (b) BI process. Knowledge, functionality, technology, business and organisation...
View ArticleLesson 6: Document Oriented Databases
Summary: Unless you have special needs Document Oriented DBs are your most likely default choice.Second in popularity in the business world behind Key-Value-Stores are Document Oriented Databases....
View ArticleLesson 7: Column Oriented Databases (aka Big Table or Wide Column)
Summary: Column Oriented DBs excel at OLAP and are efficient at partial updates.Many folks believe that Hadoop is the original NOSQL database and it is the first that was available commercially in...
View ArticleLesson 8: Graph Databases
Summary: Graph databases are your go-to choice when a relationship among the data items is key.Up to about 1999 web search engines evaluated each web page as a standalone entity, ranking them based on...
View ArticleHow to score data in Hadoop/Hive in a flash
Reference to Hadoop implies huge amount of data. The intend of the data is of course to derive insights that will help businesses stay competitive. “Scoring” the data is a common exercise in...
View ArticleNewSQL – RDBMS on Steroids
Summary: NewSQL is alive and well and under the right circumstances could be your best choice. No this is not a misprint. Yes we mean NewSQL, not NoSQL. Recently a colleague asked me about NewSQL...
View Article50 Articles about Hadoop and Related Topics
Including NoSQL, Map-Reduce, Spark, big data, and more. This resource includes technical articles, books, training and general reading. Enjoy the reading! Source for picture: click here Here’s the...
View ArticleLesson 9: Making Your Selection – Final Considerations
Summary: Here are five additional factors you’ll want to consider when putting together your short list.If you stuck with us through the first eight lessons you now know most of the major...
View ArticleHadoop: What It Is And Why It’s Such A Big Deal
Guest blog post by Francesca Krihely. Here’s a prediction and a challenge, rolled into one. Whatever the level of your present understanding of Hadoop, in short, you’re going to hear a lot more about...
View ArticleWhen is the right time for real-time? Architectural best practices for Hadoop
Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now Please join us on August 18, 2015 at 9am PDT for our latest Data Science Central Webinar Series: When is the right time for real-time? Architectural...
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