Author: Roberto Zicari

Discussion of BigBench: A Proposed Industry Standard Performance Benchmark for Big Data

Discussion of BigBench: A Proposed Industry Standard Performance Benchmark for Big Data Chaitan Baru, Milind Bhandarkar, Carlo Curino, Manuel Danisch, Michael Frank, Bhaskar Gowda, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Huang Jie, Dileep Kumar, Raghu Nambiar, Meikel Poess,...

Underhyped – Big Data as an Advance in the Scientific Method

Underhyped – Big Data as an Advance in the Scientific Method Yanpei Chen, Performance Engineering Team, Cloudera— December18, 2014. Big data is underhyped. That’s right. Underhyped. The steady drumbeat of news and press talk...

Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics

Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics by Dr. Christopher Burdorf, software engineer at NBC Universal. — December 11, 2014 The Spark cluster computing framework has an extensive machine library called Mllib which is...

Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015

Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015 by Rupert Brown, CTO Financial Services at  MarkLogic, December 5, 2014. A financial services company will suffer a major tier-1 system outage due to a failed Outsourced Database Schema...