Saturday, May 4, 2013

Where does Hadoop fits in


In today's dynamic world ,a fresh approach to data management is required, and Hadoop helps fulfill this need.
Hadoop is not the hammer to make everything a nail. Queries are batch driven, not real time. It is not designed to be optimized for specific scenarios. There is no transactional model.

So let see where it fits in ...................

Rise of Column Oriented Database Technologies


Most database vendors like Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, Informix,  base their technology on this ANSI standard.  Column-oriented databases are indeed what you might surmise; tables of data where columns of data values represent the structural storage.  

The real value in using column-oriented database is 
  1.  High performance
  2. Scalable storage 
  3. Retrieval of large to massive datasets (Big Data) focused on aggregation queries.
For more on rise of Column Oriented Database check out the presentation....



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Big Data Analytics in Politics



We live in a data-driven world. Increasingly, the efficient operation of organizations across sectors relies on the effective use of vast amounts of data. Making sense of big data is a combination of organizations having the tools, skills and more importantly, the mindset to see data as the new "oil" fueling a company. Unfortunately, the technology has evolved faster than the workforce skills to make sense of it and organizations across sectors must adapt to this new reality or perish."Andreas Weigend, Ph.D Stanford, Head of the Social Data Lab at Stanford, former Chief Scientist Amazon.com


The hottest job in today’s Presidential campaigns is the Data Mining Scientist -- whose job it is to sort through terabytes of data and billions of behaviors tracked in voter files, consumer databases, and site logs. They’ll use the numbers to uncover hidden patterns that predict how you’ll vote, if you’ll pony up with a donation, and if you’ll influence your friends to support a candidate.



To find out more how it was done click the link below...............................

http://www.slideshare.net/srudra25/big-data-analytics-in-politics-voted-yes

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