Contributor: Steve Swoyer
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.
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All articles by Steve Swoyer
The theme of this month's TDWI World Conference in Chicago was "The Big Data Tipping Point." That tipping point may be occurring in some not-so-obvious ways.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 21, 2013
Over the last five years, many DBMS vendors have introduced native or in-database implementations of MapReduce, a popular parallel programming model for distributed computing. One key difference is that MapReduce in the data management world tends to speak a very different programming language. There are plenty of other differences, too.
Because big data is fast-paced and unpredictable, operational intelligence outstrips the capabilities of traditional BI or DW tools, argues Vitria CTO Dale Skeen.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 30, 2013
Today, comparatively few enterprises are using HDFS, the distributed storage substrate of the Hadoop framework. That's quickly changing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 23, 2013
Never mind Java programmers or data scientists, there's an acute need for IT technologists with Hadoop management skills.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 16, 2013
UK-based Neutrino Concepts is taking search in a new direction -- delivering answers to questions, not a ranked list of results -- and helping users start data discovery in a whole new way.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 16, 2013