British mathematician and entrepreneur, Clive Humby coined the phrase “Data is the new oil” in 2006. Fifteen years later, the analogy still holds true. This is especially true for large businesses who ...

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Google has made clear that Omni isn't just a big branding exercise about connectors to S3 and ADLS (Amazon's Simple Storage Service and Azure Data Lake Storage, respectively), either. Instead, ...

NEW YORK, N.Y., March 28, 2017 — Jethro, provider of an acceleration solution that enables Interactive Business Intelligence (BI) on Big Data, today announced Jethro 3.0. The product is the only ...

The expanding volume and complexity of modern datasets have necessitated innovative approaches to data query processing and visualisation. Contemporary methods must efficiently extract actionable ...

Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

Google wants to make all blockchain data associated with Ethereum easily accessible for people to study. It’s doing that by making all Ethereum data sets available through BigQuery, Google’s ...

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AtScale, the first company to provide enterprises with a fast and secure self-service Business Intelligence platform ...

When data is stored in a normal table, the rows are physically stored in allocated blocks in the order in which you insert them into the database. For example, if you have a table of information about ...

Headlines have reiterated that investments in big data have continued to increase, and the big data story they’re selling us on just keeps getting bigger. But it’s time to burst that bubble. For the ...

Five years ago—in February 2012—an article in the New York Times’ Sunday Review heralded the arrival of a new epoch in human affairs: “The Age of Big Data.” Society was embarking on a revolution, the ...