The data may arrive in your Hadoop cluster in a human readable format like JSON or XML, or as a CSV file, but that doesn’t mean that’s the best way to actually store data. In fact, storing data in ...

The file system is what divides the big data files, ... This latter stage involves a transfer of local results to other master nodes or central node that perform the Reduce operation, ...

As we enter the second half of 2014, it would be fair to say that big data has gone mainstream, attracting coffee table books, multiple industry landscapes, consumer applications, and large ...

As with Aspera, Data Expedition's goal is using new, sophisticated software technology to drastically accelerated file transfers that are currently being handled by the file transfer protocol (FTP ...

The file was just too big. There were 1,013 patients’ data files to go. That study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, is the first-ever comprehensive look at the genomic landscape of ...

Storage costs for large data files can add up, so budget accordingly. Visualize the information. ... “At each stage, you’re going to be encountering new and exciting messed-up behaviour.” ...

Big data is a big deal today. Even small companies are seeing the benefits of gathering and analyzing the staggering amounts of information that are streaming in from all kinds of online sources ...

Enterprise NoSQL vendor MarkLogic recently brought its summit series to New York. Themed as 'Big Data, Beyond the Hype: Delivering Results,' the one-day conference included presentations by MarkLogic ...