Datanami: Big Data, Big Analytics, Big Insights
WEBOracle Bolsters Big Data, Analytics, and AI at CloudWorld. Oracle unleashed a torrent of new analytic and AI capabilities this week at its Oracle CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas. The fun kicked off yesterday with an expansion of capabilities in AWS and Google Cloud, updates t Read more….
Data Mesh Vs. Data Fabric: Understanding the Differences
WEBOct 25, 2021 · Data Mesh. While a data mesh aims to solve many of the same problems as a data fabric–namely, the difficulty of managing data in a heterogenous data environment–it tackles the problem in a fundamentally different manner. In short, while the data fabric seeks to build a single, virtual management layer atop distributed data, the data mesh ...
Big Data File Formats Demystified - Datanami
WEBMay 16, 2018 · Luckily for you, the big data community has basically settled on three optimized file formats for use in Hadoop clusters: Optimized Row Columnar (ORC), Avro, and Parquet. While these file formats share some similarities, each of them are unique and bring their own relative advantages and disadvantages. To …
Data Analytics Streamlines Gaming Industry. Here’s How - Datanami
WEBAugust 29, 2019. Data Analytics Streamlines Gaming Industry. Here’s How. Kseniya Yurevich. (sezer66/Shutterstock) In 2018, the video game industry revenue reached a new peak of $43.4 billion, which is 18% more compared to the previous year. This intensely growing sector breeds more complex and sweeping gaming formats, including desktop ...
Benchmarking Performance & Cost: GCP vs. AWS. vs. Azure
WEBFeb 12, 2021 · About the Report: The annual Cockroach Labs Cloud Report benchmarks AWS, Azure, and Google against each other, compiling results from over 1,000 microbenchmark tests. The big three are benchmarked on: CPU performance, network throughput and latency, storage read/write performance, and the TPC-C database benchmark. Download this whitepaper.
Big Growth Forecasted for Big Data - Datanami
WEBJan 11, 2022 · From 2020 to 2025, IDC forecasts new data creation to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23%, resulting in approximately 175ZB of data creation by 2025. “The amount of digital data created over the next five years will be greater than twice the amount of data created since the advent of digital storage,” Dave Reinsel, a senior ...
Presto the Future of Open Data Analytics, Foundation Says
WEBJun 28, 2021 · The Presto Foundation was founded in 2019 with four members, including Facebook, Uber, Twitter, and Alibaba. Over time, the group has added additional members, including Ahana, Alluxio, Upsolver, Intel, and Starburst. Intel is interested in participating with the Presto Foundation to help bolster the performance of the SQL engine on industry-standard X64 processors.
What Is Categorical Data? - Datanami
WEBJul 25, 2022 · Categorical data is one of two main data types (Tee11/Shutterstock) Census data, such as citizenship, gender, and occupation; ID numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses; Brands (Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Kia, etc.). In some instances, categorical data can be both categorical and numerical. For example, …
Data Lake or Warehouse? Databricks Offers a Third Way - Datanami
WEBNov 12, 2020 · Databricks Offers a Third Way. In the ongoing debate about where companies ought to store data they want to analyze – in a data warehouses or in data lake — Databricks today unveiled a third way. With SQL Analytics, Databricks is building upon its Delta Lake architecture in an attempt to fuse the performance and concurrency of data ...
Report Finds Intelligent Search Gets Smarter with AI
WEBDec 13, 2021 · AI leads the way, as 59% of companies struggle to find AI talent. More than half are also on the hunt for data analysis and business intelligence expertise, 44% need search engine result ranking experts, and 40% hope to find talent with data ingestion knowledge. In fact, the lack of AI talent is one reason …