Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. farm-ccapp.jpg The Climate Corporation app allows farms, soil, and weather to be monitored from anywhere. Image: Lyndsey ...

Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the past three years, data analytics has been a "digestive" exercise, with volumes of man- and machine-created data ...

Hadoop is a notoriously difficult system on which to run interactive queries. JethroData developed a SQL-on-Hadoop engine that acts as a business intelligence-on-Hadoop acceleration layer that speeds ...

Big Data is supposed to level the business playing field, but up until now it has not. Because even though it’s cheaper to store data in Hadoop or to work with open source NoSQL in theory, it’s too ...

AMPLab, the UC Berkeley research unit famous for creating the wildly popular Apache Spark technology, has now developed an adjunct open source project that uses data compression for faster queries.

If you’re a CMO today, I expect you are chomping at the bit to get into this whole “big data” craze: taking the data sets you have already collected and mining them for insights and trends you can ...

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In fall of 2012, MIT's Sloan Management School issued a report discussing the differences between big and regular data, and also differences in skills that the two demanded. Pay attention to flows as ...