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As data volumes grow, so does your need to understand how to partition your data. Until you understand this distributed storage concept, you will be unable to choose the best approach for the job. This post gives an introductory explanation of partitioning and you will see why it is integral to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) increasingly […]
Between classic business transactions and social interactions and machine-generated observations, the digital data tap has been turned on and it will never be turned off. The flow of data is everlasting. Which is why you see a lot of things in the loop around real time frameworks and streaming frameworks. – Mike Hoskins, CTO Actian […]
It’s not every day that you receive snail mail with life-changing information in it, but when it does come, it can come from the unlikeliest sources. A year ago, when doing a simple change of health insurance vendors, I had to give the requisite blood sample. I knew the drill… nurse comes to the house, takes blood, […]
