Top Stories

We All Need Direction: Hello, Apache NiFi!

Jan 17, 2017

Would the real Hadoop ecosystem savior please stand up? In the beginning, there was HDFS. Coupled with MapReduce, this budding file system offered great promise for consuming the Web, then parceling out the many indexes that would form the backbone of Yahoo’s search engine. Then came the distros. They numbered in the sixes and sevens, before the dark days came....Go To Article

Top 10 Commercial Hadoop Platforms

Jan 15, 2017

Guest blog post by Bernard Marr Hadoop – the software framework which provides the necessary tools to carry out Big Data analysis – is widely used in industry and commerce for many Big Data related tasks. It is open source, essentially meaning that it is free for anyone to use for any purpose, and can be modified for any use....Go To Article

 

Open Source DBMS 2017: Rewriting the Rules

Jan 20, 2017

Open-source software DBMS (OSDBMS) software has come a long way in the past 10 years

Does “Open” Mean “Free for the Taking”?

Jan 19, 2017

The final straw was that this guy included an entire code script of mine in a formal presentation to our IT management team.

Q&A: Transform Company Culture by Transforming How Workers Approach Data

Jan 19, 2017

Frank Bien is the CEO of BI and analytics company Looker and the coauthor (with Tomasz Tunguz) of a new book

Open Source, Vendor Lock-In Are Top of Mind for Execs This Year

Jan 17, 2017

The use of open source software has increased dramatically in the past decade

Docker adds continuous integration to DataKit

Jan 17, 2017

DataKit provides the software component pipeline framework

Power BI Gets an Analytics Infusion

Jan 17, 2017

upport for clustering brings powerful new analytics capabilities to Power BI

Scaling Kafka with Docker Containers

Jan 15, 2017

How to use Docker containers to create and scale a Kafka cluster.

Open Source Helps Drive Citizen Engagement With Minimal Cost

Jan 13, 2017

Open source software drives innovation

The Big Data Perspective, With Jack Norris of MapR

Jan 12, 2017

MapR‘s Senior Vice President of Data and Applications will provide us with his perspective on the big data and Hadoop world.

Apache Beam and Spark: New coopetition for squashing the Lambda Architecture?

Jan 12, 2017

Beam is the latest manifestation of Google's newfound open technology strateg

What Happens When AI Rewires Wealth Management?

Jan 11, 2017

Banks' wealth management departments and other investment firms are starting to adopt artificial intelligence

Data-Architectural Futures

Jan 10, 2017

What will the data architectures of the future look like?

5 Reasons to Attend Spark Summit East 2017

Jan 10, 2017

5 Reasons to Attend Spark Summit East

NoSQL and Hadoop: Document-Based versus Relational Databases

Jan 10, 2017

Both these technologies (Hadoop and NoSQL) are closely associated with big data

Release 1.11.0

Jan 09, 2017

The Apache Calcite PMC is pleased to announce Apache Calcite release 1.11.0

Events

AWS re:Invent

Nov 28, 2022 Las Vegas, NV

Join us again this year in Las Vegas for our biggest, most comprehensive, and most vibrant event in cloud computing.

AI & Big Data Expo 2022

Oct 05, 2022 Santa Clara, CA

This technology event is for the ambitious enterprise technology professional, seeking to explore the latest innovations, implementations and strategies to drive businesses forward.

Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit

Oct 04, 2022 Austin, TX

Join the first-ever data streaming industry event at Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit. You’ll be able to immerse yourself in all things real-time data with peers.

O’Reilly Open Source Convention

May 16, 2016 Austin

OSCON covers FLOSS in its entirety. Not just one language, tool, or philosophy, but all the moving parts integrated and working together.

99U 2016

May 05, 2016 New York

The goal of the 99U Conference is to shift the focus from idea generation to idea execution. Providing road-tested insights

Consensus 2016: Making Blockchain Real

May 02, 2016 New York

Consensus 2016 will define what is “real” in blockchain technology and focus on how to mainstream real-world applications for consumers.