Summary:  Of all the current Apache projects DRILL stands a good chance of being really revolutionary.

Hive, Pig, Spark, Yarn, Zoo Keeper, Falcon, Flume, Nutch, Sqoop, Storm.  Unless…

Summary:  If you’re making the decision to use NoSQL, how do you quantify the value of the investment?

If you are exploring NoSQL, once you become educated on the basics there are two questions that will rapidly move to the top of your list of considerations.  

• What does it…

Summary:  Key Value Stores like Hadoop were here first and excel at fast storage of unstructured data.

In the beginning (about…

Summary:  This blog series is designed to help you understand which NOSQL Big Data database is right for you.  It is addressed to business executives and managers who need a primer on how this decision should be made. 

Starting a Big Data Initiative is…