With the announcement of the Oracle Big Data Appliance, Oracle also comes up with some really cool technology stack which is being termed as Oracle Big Data Connectors (OBDC). This piece of software can be used with both Oracle Big Data Appliance and other Apache Hadoop-based systems.Among other things ...
Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.
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Getting started with Apache Pig
If, like me, you want to play around with data in a Hadoop cluster without having to write hundreds or thousands of lines of Java MapReduce code, you most likely will use either Hive (using the Hive Query Language HQL) or Pig. Hive is a SQL-like language which compiles to ...
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PASS Summit 2011, Day 3 – A Tribute to Wayne Snyder
First things first, Wayne Snyder is rolling off the board of directors for PASS this year. We’d worked together, shoulder to shoulder along with Joe Webb (blog | @joewebb) and other outstanding members of the SQL Server community, for many years of on the PASS board of directors and I ...
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PASS Summit 2011, Day 1
I’ve already had a few good days in Seattle/Redmond this week, meeting with the Microsoft SQL Server program teams and with other Microsoft SQL Server MVPs. I was as excited as a squeeling Justin Beiber fangirl waiting for his new video, wishing I could tell you all of ...
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Comparing Hadoop Oracle loaders
Oracle put a lot of effort into highlighting the upcoming Oracle Hadoop Loader (OHL) at OOW 2011 – it was even highlighted in Andy Mendelsohn's keynote. It’s great to see Oracle recognizing Hadoop as a top tier technology! However, there were a few comments made about the “other loaders ...
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BigData Driving Adoption of NoSQL in the Enterprise
According to a recent Evans Data Study, “NoSQL is being rapidly accepted by corporate enterprise developers in North America with 56% reporting at least some use of the schemaless database and 63% citing plans to use in the next two years according to Evans Data’s recently released North American ...
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Big Data Camp and HadoopSummit June 28-29
Hadoop” width=”640″ height=”385″ />Quest Data Connector for Oracle & Hadoop Plan on attending the #HadoopSummit next week in Santa Clara? Then be sure to stop by to see the latest in Quest solutions for Hadoop. We’ll be showcasing several products that help with transferring data to and from ...
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Adventures in the Land of CloudDB/NoSQL/NoAcid
Cloud, Bunny, or CloudBunny? Last year, some of my friends from Quest Software attended Hadoop World in New York. In 2009, I never would’ve guessed that Quest would be there with products, community initiatives, as a major sponsor and with presenters? There were just under 1,000 attendees who ...
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Why The Fuss – Data Scientist, Collective Intelligence, NoSQL and Hadoop
We’re really lucky at Quest to have some very smart R+D talent. Our head of R+D in Melbourne, Australia, came to the Bay Area last week for the Strata Conference and brought a couple of his top people. I got the chance to talk with them about ...
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How to Navigate the New World of Database Technologies
Good article from Billy Bosworth on how emerging database technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, Amazon SimpleDB and Azure are impacting the business and provides strategies on how to deal with it. Originally featured in eWeek 2/3/11 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/How-to-Navigate-the-New-World-of-Database-Technologies/ How to Navigate the New ...