On Apache Kafka®. Q&A with Gwen Shapira
Q1. What are the most important changes to Kafka in the last few years? The last few years have been an incredibly busy time for the Apache Kafka® community. The community grew quite rapidly....
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Vertica: The Kafka Streaming Load Scheduler
by Tom Wall. Vertica’s streaming load scheduler provides high-performance streaming data load from Kafka into your Vertica database. Whether you already use Kafka or not, it is worth considering it as a solution to...
On Cloud-based AI. Q&A with James Kobielus
Q1. What is cloud-based AI? Cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) refers to intelligent applications that are built, trained, deployed, and used in cloud-computing environments, including the Internet of Things (IoT). AI is rapidly being incorporated...
Data for the Public Good report- National Infrastructure Commission
Foreword Advances in technology have always transformed our lives and indeed whole industries such as banking and retail. In the same way, sensors, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning can transform the way...
MarketStore: Database server optimized for financial timeseries data
MarketStore is a database server optimized for financial timeseries data. You can think of it as an extensible DataFrame service that is accessible from anywhere in your system, at higher scalability. It is designed...
On Fintech and AI. Q&A with Hitoshi Harada
Hitoshi Harada, CTO and co-founder of Alpaca. Q1. What are the main lessons you have learned as a database core developer? I started my database core developer path by jumping into the open source...
When big data becomes vast, what’s your data dropping strategy?
BY Danko Nikolic When big data technology is pitched, it’s often said that this is the best way to store all your data. The idea is that you will not use an expansive database, but...
On the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform. Q&A with Joe Lichtenberg
Q&A with Joe Lichtenberg, Director of Marketing for Data Platforms, InterSystems. Q1. When would you recommend (or not) to users of InterSystems Caché® and Ensemble® to move to the new IRIS Data Platform? InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is a...
Network Science: The Hidden Field behind Machine Learning, Economics and Genetics That You’ve (Probably) Never Heard of – An Interview with Dr. Aaron Clauset [Part 1]
By Amy Hodler, Partner Community Manager | February 13, 2018 I recently had the opportunity to combine work and pleasure and meet with Dr. Aaron Clauset, an expert on network science, data science and...
Unleashing a New, Powerful Data Platform: InterSystems IRIS Now Available
01.31.18 by SIMON PLAYER Back in September at the 2017 Global Summit, we announced the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform. And the past four months we have been busy getting ready for the general availability...