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Big Data/Dremel/Metanautix: Applying Interactive SQL-Based Data Analytics to Massive Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Dremel is a big-data analytics tool developed by Google that lets analysts interactively explore data using standard SQL.  While Dremel has already been used at Google for eight years in production and while it’s been four years since Google first described

Big Data: Real-Time Stream Processing with DataTorrent

By Dick Weisinger

Traditional computing techniques are challenged when it comes to handling large volumes of real-time data.  Stream processing is an evolving programming paradigm that attempts to take on the challenge of processing large real-time data.  While Hadoop is one technology that’s

Big Data Analytics: The Effect of Geography on Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

Attitudes about technology, like many things, are often heavily influenced by geography and culture.  A survey by Teradata found, for example, that while adoption rates in the UK for Big Data have led the rates for adoption across Europe, the

Big Data: Capital Markets Slow to Adopt Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Recently financial firms involved in capital markets were surveyed about their uptake and use of big data by Thomson Reuters and Aite Group. The report found that: Most financial firms dealing in capital markets haven’t yet created an overall big

Big Data: SAP Customers Question ROI of In-Memory HANA

By Dick Weisinger

Headlines from SAP boast a 422% ROI from the use of SAP HANA for Big Data Analysis.  An SAP blog reports that an IDC study of the University of Kentucky found identified over 500% ROI with HANA. But according to a