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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

Altexsoft

These seemingly unrelated terms unite within the sphere of big data, representing a processing engine that is both enduring and powerfully effective — Apache Spark. Maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, Apache Spark is an open-source, unified engine designed for large-scale data analytics.

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The Good and the Bad of Hadoop Big Data Framework

Altexsoft

Depending on how you measure it, the answer will be 11 million newspaper pages or… just one Hadoop cluster and one tech specialist who can move 4 terabytes of textual data to a new location in 24 hours. Developed in 2006 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to run the web crawler Apache Nutch, it has become a standard for Big Data analytics.

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Beyond Hadoop

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Clustered computing for real-time Big Data analytics. Dean and Ghemawat’s work generated instant buzz and led to the introduction of an open source implementation, Hadoop, in 2006. Known as “multidimensional online analytical processing” (M-OLAP), this approach is sometimes referred to more succinctly as “data cubes.”

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Big Data Analytics: How It Works, Tools, and Real-Life Applications

Altexsoft

Big Data enjoys the hype around it and for a reason. But the understanding of the essence of Big Data and ways to analyze it is still blurred. This post will draw a full picture of what Big Data analytics is and how it works. Big Data and its main characteristics. Key Big Data characteristics.

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Azure vs AWS: How to Choose the Cloud Service Provider?

Existek

Along with meeting customer needs for computing and storage, they continued extending services by presenting products dealing with analytics, Big Data, and IoT. The next big step in advancing Azure was introducing the container strategy, as containers and microservices took the industry to a new level. Data Engineer $130 000.

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Building Successful Machine Learning Foundations in Enterprises—A Practitioner’s Viewpoint

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In the digital communities that we live in, storage is virtually free and our garrulous species is generating and storing data like never before. And, with exponentially increasing computing power and newer chip architectures, Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful technique for building models over Big Data to predict outcomes.