IBM just announced Event Store, a hybrid datastore to store events. The originality? Events can be streamed in and it is based on Apache Spark. IBM claims to be able […]
A new Informix Book is Out for MacOS and Java
Why a book on Informix? Informix has been a passion for almost 20 years. Very often, a younger version of myself would say: “I don’t like databases, that’s why I […]
HDP 2.6 is Out: Spark 2, Hive 2, and Zeppelin 0.7 are GA
Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 has been released and you can download the platform from their website. The sandbox is not yet available in v2.6. New Versions of Key Components […]
Recents Publications
A quick flashback on a few articles I published recently. You Are Not a Machine, So Learn Machine Learning published by Database Trends and Applications on February 21st, 2017. What Are Spark […]
The WoW I Went To
Right before Halloween, from October 24th to October 27th, I went to WoW. Of course, when I told that to my kids they assumed I was going to play World […]
Ben Sharma on Data Lake
Zaloni’s CEO Ben Sharma is speaking about managing data lakes. What has happened is IT department starts by installing Hadoop and jumps into Big Data. Not a lot of companies […]
Zaloni’s Mica on the Radar
Mica is data preparation tool, which can be used by anyone… It makes it a self-service data preparation software. Data scientists and engineers can use it for discovery, curation, and […]
Chapel Hill, we *Don’t* Have a Problem…
Successful first deployment of Apache Spark on a production server. Yep… I could add the line on my resume. Right now, we have set 24 cores, 72 GB of memory […]
The Apache Ecosystem for Enterprise Applications
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) offers a wide range of tools, libraries, frameworks, and data stores for building enterprise applications. The purpose of this list is to keep track of […]
Five Good Reasons to Name your Fields Correctly
People will start to believe that I am starting a series on agriculture (see my previous post: Name your fields, it’s easier when you’re gonna harvest). They would be partially […]