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Hosted NoSQL
I admit I dunno how I got here in the first place … ah, right, yesterday was Paddy’s day and I was sitting at home with a sick child. Now, I tinkered around a bit with a hosted CouchDB solution to...
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Why I luv JSON …
… because it’s simple, agnostic and an end-to-end solution. Wat? OK, let’s slow down a bit and go through the above keywords step by step. Simple Over 150 frameworks, libraries and tools directly...
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Linked Data – the best of two worlds
On the one hand you have structured data sources such as relational DB, NoSQL datastores or OODBs and the like that allow you to query and manipulate data in a structured way. This typically involves...
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Interactive analysis of large-scale datasets
The value of large-scale datasets – stemming from IoT sensors, end-user and business transactions, social networks, search engine logs, etc. – apparently lies in the patterns buried deep inside them....
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Denormalizing graph-shaped data
As nicely pointed out by Ilya Katsov: Denormalization can be defined as the copying of the same data into multiple documents or tables in order to simplify/optimize query processing or to fit the...
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MapReduce for and with the kids
Last week was Halloween and of course we went trick-or-treating with our three kids which resulted in piles of sweets in the living room. Powered by the sugar, the kids would stay up late to count...
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Hosted MapReduce and Hadoop offerings
Today’s question is: where are we regarding MapReduce/Hadoop in the cloud? That is, what are the offerings of Hadoop-as-a-Service or other hosted MapReduce implementations, currently? A year ago,...
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MapR, Europe and me
You might have already heard that MapR, the leading provider of enterprise-grade Hadoop and friends, is launching its European operations. Guess what? I’m joining MapR Europe as of January 2013 in the...
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Elephant filet
End of January I participated in a panel discussion on Big Data, held during the CISCO live event in London. One of my fellow panelists, I believe it was Sean McKeown of CISCO, said there something...
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Cloud Cipher Capabilities
… or, the lack of it. A recent discussion at a customer made me having a closer look around support for encryption in the context of XaaS cloud service offerings as well as concerning Hadoop. In...
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