Big Data Resources

It's not about SQL vs. NoSQL, but rather when to use each option. This guide walks through the benefits of relational and non-relational databases as well as use cases.

March 16, 2017

by Alon Brody

· 15,691 Views · 21 Likes

MVC CRUD Actions Using KnockoutJS

In this post, we'll walk you through a tutorial on how to create an MVC CRUD application using KnockoutJS in conjunction with an SQL database and Visual Studio.

March 13, 2017

by Sibeesh Venu

· 22,674 Views · 10 Likes

IoT Security Woes

Securing cloud-based IoT is hard; there is a combination of local software, cloud, and hardware solutions to deal with. Let's take a look at a possible solution.

March 9, 2017

by Anatoly Lebedev

· 3,111 Views · 1 Like

Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery in Hadoop

Test your backup and restore procedures right after you install your cluster. Backups are a waste of time and space if they don't work and you can't get your data back!

March 3, 2017

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 28,505 Views · 5 Likes

How to Improve Hive Query Performance With Hadoop

Apache Hive is a powerful tool for analyzing data. It's very important that you know how to improve the performance of query when you are processing petabytes of data.

March 3, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

CORE

· 84,524 Views · 9 Likes

HBase Compaction and Data Locality With Hadoop

Compaction is a process by which HBase cleans itself, and data locality is a solution to data not being available to Mapper.

March 2, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

CORE

· 30,395 Views · 5 Likes

Data Modelling Topologies of a Graph Database

The associative data graph database model is still a heavy hitter, stacking up well against property graphs and triples/quadruples. Expect a comeback.

March 1, 2017

by Athanassios I. Hatzis, PhD

· 12,802 Views · 9 Likes

Big Data Solves Real-World Problems

Working smartly with Big Data results in improved customer and patient experiences across a variety of different industries.

February 24, 2017

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 10,546 Views · 3 Likes

Getting Started With Apache Camel and the Internet of Things

If you're planning to invest in connected devices, make sure your middleware and communications are up to snuff. In this case, we look a how to mix Camel with a Pi.

February 20, 2017

by Joseph S. Butler

· 8,718 Views · 10 Likes

A Disk-Based Collection in Java

Feeling constrained by your heap? Want to store more elements in a collection than your memory can hold? Check out this project designed to handle big collections.

February 17, 2017

by Reinout Korbee

· 23,450 Views · 6 Likes

A Look at ClickHouse: A New Open Source Columnar Database

ClickHouse is an open source columnar database that promises fast scans that can be used for real-time queries. See how it works, complete with benchmarks against Spark.

Updated February 17, 2017

by Alexander Rubin

· 18,177 Views · 1 Like

5 Data Storage Solutions for Better Log Management

Depending on how much data you have from saving time-based events, you may want to choose one storage solution over the other.

February 16, 2017

by Vladislav Chernov

· 94,606 Views · 5 Likes

Introducing the Thingsboard Open Source IoT Gateway

Thingsboard is hard at work on a new open source gateway that should allow devs from hobbyists to IIoT specialists to connect to devices regardless of protocol.

February 12, 2017

by Andrew Shvayka

· 16,033 Views · 7 Likes

CART and Random Forests for Practitioners

Both CART and Random Forests help data scientists better understand algorithms and work with dirty data. However, they still have some key differences.

February 10, 2017

by Sibanjan Das

CORE

· 15,835 Views · 4 Likes

TensorFlow on the Edge, Part 1 of 5

Running TensorFlow on the Edge is now possible, what, why and how?

February 6, 2017

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 18,896 Views · 6 Likes

How Is Facebook Deploying Big Data?

How Facebook harnessed Big Data by mastering open source tools, and in some cases developing their own.

Updated February 6, 2017

by Shravani Chakraborty

· 31,620 Views · 7 Likes

How Data Lakes Work

How data lakes can help eliminate costs and time involved in working with large amounts of data.

January 31, 2017

by Ben Sharma

· 11,694 Views · 7 Likes

Prediction Zone: Using R With Shiny

Sibanjan Das offers up a tutorial for building a web-based cluster and prediction analysis application through using R with the open source Shiny framework. Oh yeah, and he embedded the app directly into this DZone article... shine on you crazy data scientist.

January 30, 2017

by Sibanjan Das

CORE

· 19,269 Views · 9 Likes

A Framework for Chatbot Evaluation

Chatbots continue to work their way into ever-more solutions, but how should we evaluate their effectiveness? In this post we take a look at a potential framework for doing just that.

January 27, 2017

by Tony Russell-rose

· 7,675 Views

Scheduling Statistics Maintenance in Azure SQL Data Warehouse

You can leverage your Azure SQL Data Warehouse to automate some of your maintenance. Creating a Runbook will let you schedule to your hearts content.

January 23, 2017

by Grant Fritchey

· 4,026 Views · 2 Likes

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