Category: Big Data, Analytical Data Platforms, AI and Data Science

Big Data for Good. A distinguished panel of experts discuss how Big Data can be used to create Social Capital

by Roberto V. Zicari, Editor ODBMS.org. June 5, 2012. Abstract: Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created. This data comes from digital pictures, videos, posts to social media sites, intelligent sensors, purchase...

Exploring your InfoSphereBigInsights cluster and sample applications

Cynthia M. Saracco (saracco@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM PriyaBaliga, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Stephen A. Brodsky, Distinguished Engineer, Architect, Big Data, IBM Abstract: If you’re looking to getting a quick start with “big data”...

User Behaviour Modelling in a Multi-Dimensional Environment for Personalization and Recommendation

Dr. Rakesh Rawat, Senior Research Assistant (Faculty of Science & Technology) CRC-Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia-4000 Author: Rakesh Rawat Abstract: The thesis discusses methods of modelling user’s Web server search log data for...

StreamCloud: An Elastic Parallel-Distributed Stream Processing Engine

Language: English Author: Vincenzo Massimiliano Gulisano Affiliation: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (U.P.M.) – Polytechnic University of Madrid Abstract: The thesis proposes a novel stream processing engine, StreamCloud, that overcomes limitations of existing centralized and...

Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Eugene Kogan, Hongyi Li, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David...

Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design

Daniel J. Abadi, Yale University Abstract The CAP theorem’simpact on modern distribute databa sesystem design is more limited than is often perceived. Another tradeoff—between consistency and latency —has had a more direct influence on...