The combined Hadoop-NoSQL market will exceed $3 billion in revenues in 2017 predicts Wikibon’s “Hadoop-NoSQL Software and Services Forecast, 2013-2017”. What’s driving growth is a major shift away ...

Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used ...

Not long ago, the rules for what constituted a data warehouse were fairly well defined. The schema was fixed, you could say, and was based primarily on relational database technology designed to ...

As the big data community gores itself over real-time vs. batch, Basho CTO Dave McCrory (@mccrory) offers an easy way to settle the question: Let gravity decide. Or data gravity, to be more precise.

Live from O’Reilly Strata Conference and Hadoop World: MapR M7 brings enterprise-grade reliability and performance to HBase, adding integrated snapshots, mirroring, instant recovery, and delivering ...

Big data security specialist Zettaset is joining forces with security hardware vendor Utimaco to offer an integrated data encryption security module for use with Hadoop and NoSQL. The partners said ...

Striking a strategic alliance, MapR Technologies Inc. and MongoDB Inc. bring their respective camps of the analytics movement closer together as growing enterprise adoption makes the need for ...

diginomica is largely a business focused technology property. We are less concerned with the minutiae of the technology and lean more towards what it delivers. But in recent weeks, we've been spending ...

It's about time: More than 10 years after we first heard the term, "big data" has become productive. The world’s largest enterprises — Apple, Wal-Mart and countless others — run large-scale data ...

There’s no getting around it—unstructured data is now flooding into enterprises at an unprecedented rate. Many data managers and administrators say most of the data they are handling will be ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...