Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Cloudera, the category leader that sets the standard for Apache Hadoop in the enterprise, today announced a strategic alliance that delivers big data analytics across the enterprise. The relationship ensures best-in-class integration of Splunk® Enterprise to Cloudera Enterprise using Splunk Hadoop Connect, ...

Before jumping straight into why Metamarkets open sourced Druid, I thought I would give a brief dive into what Druid is and how it came about. For more details, check out the Druid white paper. We are lucky to be developing software in a period of extreme innovation. Fifteen years ago, if a developer or ops person went into his or her boss’s office and suggested using a non-relational/non-SQL/non-ACID/non-O ...

10gen, the MongoDB company, today announced that ServiceSource® (NASDAQ: SREV), the global leader in recurring revenue management, selected MongoDB to power its Renew OnDemand cloud application. Renew OnDemand is the only cloud application built specifically to increase recurring revenue. Based on 12 years of best practices in growing recurring service, maintenance and subscription revenue, Renew OnDemand i ...

VoltDB, the world's fastest high-velocity database, today announced the results of a recent third-party benchmark performance test designed to test throughput and scalability for large-scale online gaming applications. An Erlang client application benchmark for VoltDB recently recorded an extraordinary 877,519 transactions per second running on a standard Amazon EC2 server configuration. The benchmark test ...

Sumo Logic, which makes cloud-based tools to crunch data on a massive scale, expects a sevenfold increase in the number of its customers this year as "Big Data" gains in popularity, its chief executive said. The privately owned startup is among a handful of companies to have caught the eye of investors in search of the next Splunk (SPLK.O), the Big Data trailblazer that has more than doubled in value since ...

IBM is making a series of high-profile analytics announcements on Wednesday from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., a fitting location at the epicenter of big data activity. The themes of the announcements will sound familiar because they've been the subject of announcements by plenty of competitors in recent years, but IBM contends it's setting new standards of performance. There are two majo ...

In one of my recent projects, I had to load product data from a CSV file into HBase and also to index it for search purpose.. I decided to separate out the loader part of the project as a stand alone tool and make available as open source. Currently, it’s hosted in github. It supports HBase. I will be adding support for Cassandra soon. I am working on Solr indexing right now. Introduction The tool is very g ...

New to the Open Source Conference this year is OSCON Data, for developers pioneering the evolving architectures and tools to manage data. See how Hadoop is used to optimize scalability and reliability at Yahoo. Find out how Facebook utilizes HBase to manage real-time messaging. Why Netflix moved from relational DBs to NoSQL cloud systems for personalized movie choosing. The in-depth sessions at OSCON Data, ...

When your relational database takes longer to process your data than to collect it, it's time to call in big data technology, said panelists at Interop. Not everyone is sure whether they have big data or not, or whether they need a NoSQL system to handle it. One way to find out, said one adopter of a NoSQL approach, is to ask yourself whether it is taking you longer to process your data than it did to colle ...