Like all big companies, Home Depot has a list of IT projects that it wants to tackle. When the COVID pandemic hit two years ago and ecommerce activity | Continue reading
Since its inception, KX has been the exclusive domain of programmers skilled in the language q, and used primarily for the most demanding analytics | Continue reading
Companies have been pushing the envelope of real-time analytics and what technology is capable of for many years. Along that vein, Rockset today claimed | Continue reading
Business is booming these days for graph databases--maybe it took COVID to show us how connected everything is--and that’s good news for Franz, which | Continue reading
PlanetScale today took the wraps off its new database as a service based on Vitess, the horizontally distributed branch of MySQL that was developed at | Continue reading
PHP is widely known as an interpreted language. But with PHP version 8, the language was given a Just In Time (JIT) compiler. According to PHP folks at | Continue reading
AI and machine learning by themselves do not move the needle. The technologies must be applied somehow to have the desired impact. With that in mind, | Continue reading
Working with large numbers of files--and large files--remains a roadblock to productivity for data professionals around the world. Now a software startup | Continue reading
During a financial crisis or natural disaster, stock traders frequently abandon risky equities and instead move to safer bets, like utilities, precious | Continue reading
If you haven’t yet heard about Ray, the open source Python framework for building distributed applications, then next week’s Ray Summit will provide a | Continue reading
Serving SQL queries on a petabyte of data is one thing, but delivering it at Facebook’s scale is something else entirely. Earlier this year, the social | Continue reading
The latest beta release of the Apache Cassandra is designed to hit the ground running as the NoSQL database moves steadily to the cloud to provide managed | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has put many of the world’s activities at a stand-still. Scientists and government officials have been working furiously behind the | Continue reading
Models matter. Companies that are able to build their businesses around meaningful models generate competitive advantage through better understanding the | Continue reading
Large swaths of the world’s population have been locked down in an unprecedented attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. People have | Continue reading
In the midst of a global pandemic, big data technologies like graph databases are demonstrating a remarkable capability to model complex interactions | Continue reading
If you’re in the market for data science and machine learning tools, we have great news: The market is absolutely booming in 2020. With a ton of healthy | Continue reading
AI anomaly detection is just one tool in an arsenal that Gartner now refers to as augmented analytics, but it’s among the most important. By providing | Continue reading
What does it take to get value out of data? Many organizations assume that you need a big collection of data and a highly skilled data scientist to spin | Continue reading
Apache Kafka and its accompanying key-value store are being used to provide persistent storage for a growing list of relational databases. Most used a | Continue reading
Anybody who has tried hiring a data scientist can attest to the fact that we're in the midst of a skills crunch of epic proportion. Cutthroat competition | Continue reading
An effort to bring structure and meaning to huge volumes of varied data is being used to improve training of neural networks. The technique, dubbed Neural | Continue reading
As programming languages go, there's no denying that Python is hot. Originally created as a general-purpose scripting language, Python somehow became the | Continue reading
In the big data battle for architectural supremacy, the cloud is clearly winning and Hadoop is clearly losing. Customers are shying away from investing in | Continue reading
LinkedIn is releasing its Brooklin data ingestion service to the open source community. Brooklin has been running in production on the social media | Continue reading
Polyglot Persistence, first introduced in 2011, is now almost canon law in IT. So, what I have to say may come across as blasphemy. Most organizations | Continue reading
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 29, 2019 -- PingCAP, a leading distributed database company that created and supports the popular open-source cloud-native NewSQL | Continue reading
Who is a data scientist, and what do they do? It's a worthy question, and one that's been asked an untold number of times over the years. But now it | Continue reading
AI is poised to drive the next wave of technological disruption across industries. Like previous technology revolutions in Web and mobile, however, there | Continue reading
Platform vendors are increasingly focusing on computing at the network edge as those devices sweep up more unstructured data. The goal is to move | Continue reading
A recent report emerging from the center of U.S. auto manufacturing rains on the AI parade with research results claiming autonomous vehicle algorithms | Continue reading
As 2018 rolls to a close, it's time to turn our attention to 2019 and the possibility that it holds. What will happen next year is anybody's guess, which | Continue reading
Developers writing graph applications that scale into the billions of vertices and trillions and edges are forced to make trade-offs that impact the | Continue reading
An organization that wants to power a transactional application using a single database that spans multiple data centers around the world without giving | Continue reading
We've barely scratched the surface on the impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the far-reaching European Union law that went into | Continue reading
The merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks was applauded by many people in the big data community, and even Wall Street liked the news initially. But as the | Continue reading
As data scientists confront operational challenges that are slowing the transition of machine learning models to production, more vendors are stepping up | Continue reading
A new AI initiative aims to catalog about 1 million high-resolution images according to their “visual DNA” using supercomputer-powered vision and an | Continue reading
With 125 million players around the world, Fortnite has set a new standard of success for massively multi-player games. But pulling together all the | Continue reading
A deep learning model trained on 2,700 of William Shakespeare's sonnets is giving poetry fans fits trying to tell the AI-generated poems from the real | Continue reading
Advances in machine learning, including deep learning, have propelled artificial intelligence (AI) into the public conscience and forced executives to | Continue reading
Streaming analytics is moving into the mainstream as more enterprises capitalize on the technology to gain greater efficiency, competitiveness, and profitability. In fact, the streaming analytics market will grow to $13.7 billion by 2021, at a compound annual growth rate of 34.8% … | Continue reading
Microsoft has a lot of irons in the fire. Always has and always will. But judging from its recent acquisition of Revolution Analytics, the early success of its hosted machine learning service, and the forthcoming public launch of a MapReduce analog called "Cosmos," the Redmond, W … | Continue reading