What Happened to Hadoop? And Where Do We Go from Here?

Apache Hadoop emerged on the IT scene in 2006 with the promise to provide organizations with the capability to store an unprecedented volume of data using cheap, commodity hardware. Hadoop facilitated data lakes were accompanied by a number of independent open source compute engines – and on top of that, “open source” meant free! What could go wrong?

ETL: The Silent Killer of Big Data Projects

In this special guest feature, Monte Zweben co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine outlines how traditional ETL processes are bursting at the seams with the volume of Big Data and ways to streamline the ETL pipeline.

Splice Machine Partners with Talend to Streamline Data Workflows on Hadoop

Splice Machine, provider of the Hadoop RDBMS, announced a partnership with Talend, a global leader in Big Data integration software, enabling customers to simplify data integration and streamline their data workflows on Hadoop.

Splice Machine Partners with RedPoint Global to Deliver “Big Data” Digital Marketing Platform

Splice Machine, provider of The Hadoop RDBMS, announced it has formed a strategic partnership with RedPoint Global, a data management and digital marketing software leader, to bring its customers a complete omni-channel marketing solution for Big Data.

Splice Machine Completes Hortonworks Certification

Splice Machine, provider of a Hadoop RDBMS, today announced that it’s Hadoop RDBMS has successfully achieved Hortonworks® Data Platform (HDP™) Certification by completing the required integration testing with Hortonworks Data Platform.

MapR Technologies Launches Industry’s First Apache Hadoop Application Gallery

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of a leading distribution for Apache Hadoop, today launched at Hadoop Summit the industry’s first Hadoop application gallery. Launching with solutions from a wide range of Hadoop ecosystem partners, the MapR App Gallery is designed to help customers derive greater business value from big data as they scale-out their enterprise data architectures.

Big Data Analytics, Big Benefits for Healthcare

Federal agencies have great expectations for how big data analytics can improve healthcare, but are they doing enough to prepare to take advantage of big data? A MeritTalk survey of 150 federal executives involved in healthcare or healthcare research reveals that 62% of those surveyed believe that big data will significantly improve patient outcomes for the Veterans Administration and those receiving military health services.

Splice Machine Launches Public Beta of its Hadoop RDBMS

Splice Machine, provider of the only Hadoop RDBMS, today announced that its real-time relational database management system is now available as a public beta. The Splice Machine database enables companies to replace traditional RDBMS systems that are too costly or difficult to scale. A full-featured, transactional SQL database on Hadoop, Splice Machine moves Hadoop beyond its batch analytics heritage to power operational applications and real-time analytics.

Splice Machine Gets Funding for its Real-Time SQL-on-Hadoop Database

Splice Machine can already boast of having the only real-time SQL-on-Hadoop database for Big Data and now they have additional funding to further expand the company’s offerings.

Splice Machine for SQL-on-Hadoop

Splice Machine has written a compelling new whitepaper justifying the need for SQL-on-Hadoop technology solutions. The whitepaper, “Splice Machine: SQL-on-Hadoop Evaluation Guide” includes a number of useful topics.