Reynold Xin, Databricks
Reynold Xin is a co-founder of Databricks and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Spark. He has been instrumental in the design and implementation of Spark and its various components. He led...
Author: Roberto Zicari
Embracing the evolution of Graphs
Embracing the evolution of Graphs by Stephen Dillon, Data Architect, Schneider Electric. –January 2015. Graph database technologies are poised to become even more influential in both the Big Data and Analytics communities. There is...
Stephen Dillon
Stephen Dillon has over 18 years of experience working with data engineering and database technologies. Stephen’s focus is on Data architecture and the Cloud including the practice and research of storage, distributed data, NoSQL,...
Big Data and Traditional Data for the United Nations Development Agenda
Big Data and Traditional Data for the United Nations Development Agenda By Sabrina Juran, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) — January 2015. The call from the report http://www.undatarevolution.org/report/ of the Independent Expert Advisory Group to...
REINVENTING SOCIETY IN THE WAKE OF BIG DATA (Video)
REINVENTING SOCIETY IN THE WAKE OF BIG DATA (Video) A Conversation with Alex (Sandy) Pentland [8.30.12] ALEX ‘SANDY’ PENTLAND is a pioneer in big data, computational social science, mobile and health systems, and technology for developing...
Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Processing with NuoDB
Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Processing with NuoDB Technical Whitepaper, NuoDB. Abstract NuoDB is a distributed SQL database management system that provides a simpler, more cost effective, and ultimately higher-scale approach to hybrid transaction and...
Jay Kreps, Confluent
Jay Kreps is the CEO of Confluent a start-up focused on real-time data and Apache Kafka. He is among the original authors of several open source projects including a distributed key-value store called Project...
Privacy considerations & responsibilities in the era of Big Data & Internet of Things
Privacy considerations & responsibilities in the era of Big Data & Internet of Things by Ramkumar Ravichandran, Director, Analytics, Visa Inc. – January 8, 2015. Over the past few months, I heard so much about...
Ramkumar Ravichandran, Visa Inc.
Ramkumar Ravichandran, Director, Analytics, Visa Inc. As Director, Analytics for the Digital Developed Markets department at Visa Inc., I am responsible for helping the Leadership & Stakeholders with actionable insights derived from Analytics. The...
Pere Urbón Bayes, Elasticsearch
Pere Urbón Bayes, Elasticsearch Pere is a software engineer at Elasticsearch and prolific open source contributor. He’s spent more than a decade as a technologist, honing his love of data and databases as a...