Mainframe Real-time and Streaming Analytics

If you analyze data as soon as it is created – in other words, if you perform real-time analytics – you get much more value out of it than if you wait until the data is a bit older. Sure, data analytics are still useful if the data is a day or a week old. If […]

Key Takeaways from Spark+AI Summit

The 2020 Spark+AI Summit 2020 organized by Databricks hosted 60,000 virtual attendees. The keynotes focused on technical updates such as data integration and quality, and included  multiple live demos, and use cases. Spark turns 10 years old Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-founder at Databricks and Matei Zaharia, co-founder and Chief Technologist at Databricks, celebrated Spark’s […]

Testing the Waters: How to Get a Hadoop Data Lake Set Up Right

Researching how to leverage big data quickly yields results about data lakes. Essentially, a data lake is merely a data storage solution that allows you to store large quantities of data in its original, unaltered format. By nature, it accepts all forms of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. While a data lake can be built […]