For twenty years, analytics has been viewed as just one specific area within
the broader relational database industry. So, analytics has meant databases.
Today that view is changing. Over the past year or so, a new movement, the
"NoSQL" movement has emerged promoting the advantages of doing a variety of
kinds of analytics without using any relational database technologies at all.
Whatever one thinks of the capabilities and limitations of distributed
key-value stores relative to relational databases, one thing is clear - the
stranglehold that SQL has held over all aspects of data analytics since 1990
is now coming to an end. Other non-SQL approaches to analytics such as
MapReduce/Hadoop, a very simple dataflow architecture for batch computing,
are now gaining ground. As th... (more)
The intercloud turns computing inside out. With traditional IT, we move the
data to where the computing infrastructure is located. With the data volumes
in most application areas now growing exponentially, this IT model is now
broken. Moving massive volumes of data around means more bandwidth, more
storage, and more latency. We need instead to position the computing
infrastructure next t... (more)
Cloud Data Analytics on Ulitzer
In the previous article we looked at how realtime cloud analytics looks set
to disrupt the $25B SQL/OLAP sector of the IT industry. What are users
looking for from a next-generation post-SQL/OLAP enterprise analytics
solution? Let's look at the requirements:
Realtime + Historical Data. In addition to analyzing (historical) data held
in databases (Oracle, S... (more)
In the past it was so much easier. Search engines could crawl the web at a
leisurely pace, clean up the data, build indexes, and every so often provide
a new, improved search experience with more web pages covered. That was the
internet, the old non-realtime internet. Today it’s different! Not only are
people interested in a lot more than just web pages, they want to see
everything LIVE,... (more)
Cloud Data Analytics on Ulitzer
Cloud analytics is hot. Gartner's top two strategic technologies for the
enterprise in 2010 are cloud computing and advanced analytics. In their words
"Technologies you can't afford to ignore".
Venture capitalist Ann Winblad, in a recent video, points out that the coming
era of realtime cloud analytics will have a revolutionary impact on the
enterprise, cr... (more)