It seems that with more data comes more decisions, as well. The study found that 78% reported they are bombarded with more data from more sources than ever before, and 74% say the number of decisions ...

Additionally, Apache Hive, which marked a huge step forward in big data processing by abstracting away the underlying distributed nature of Hadoop and exposing a familiar SQL (-ish) table abstraction ...

Data cleansing – fixing or discarding anomalous or wrong numbers and otherwise ensuring the data is an accurate representation of the phenomenon it is meant to measure — accounts for more than a ...

AWS has notified customers of its Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 service that it will cease supporting the offering at the end of 2024. Replacing v1 in the Aurora Serverless range, which supports ...

Data Fabric Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna was among the first individuals to define the data fabric back in the mid-2000s. Conceptually, a big data fabric is essentially a metadata-driven way of ...

The data we have now is huge. But size, it turns out, is a relative thing. And according to the IDC, the sum of the world’s data – the DataSphere — will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to a ...

Anaconda created a stir over a year ago when it began charging large commercial users a fee for access to its popular collection of Python tools. The change, it said, was necessary to offset the costs ...

That left the humble metadata catalog as the last piece standing between customers and their dream of a truly open data lakehouse. Databricks’ rival, Snowflake, addressed the potential lock-in of the ...

To get the low down on this high tech, we tapped the knowledge of the smart folks at Nexla, a developer of tools for managing data and converting formats. Nexla CTO and co-founder Jeff Williams and ...

“The United States government is mandating their agencies to it, but industry as well as going to need to be doing this migration. The migration is not going to be easy [and] it’s not going to be pain ...

The technology lab for the world’s largest company was pitted against an existing demand forecasting system that was developed by JDA Software. That system was no slouch, but Walmart’s internal ...

On the other side of the coin are object storage systems like Amazon Web Service ’s S3 and Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), which provide very scalable and very inexpensive places to park ...