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.
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