Big Data Part III: Hadoop 2.0 Changes Everything

Feb 13, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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Last year, we could write off Hadoop as a giant, low cost, data processing pump for refining multi-structured data and delivering it to the data warehouse. No more. Hadoop 2, and in particular the Apache Yarn project, changes everything.Released in October of 2013, Hadoop 2 turns the open source...

Big Data Part II: Don't Bash the Data Warehouse

Feb 12, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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In the following post, the second in the five-part series on the impact of Hadoop on business intelligence, Wayne Eckerson discusses a new option for Hadoop.  With the Hadoop 2 and in particular, the Apache Yarn project, companies can now process the data in Hadoop without moving it to...

Big Data Part I: Battle for the Future of Hadoop: Cloudera versus Hortonworks

Feb 11, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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Big data begs a big question: does Hadoop replace your enterprise data warehouse or augment it? The two leading vendors of Hadoop distributions offer very different answers. For Cloudera, the first vendor to offer a Hadoop distribution, the answer is an unequivocal yes. 

Data Governance Part III: Two Worlds of Data Governance: Managing Data from the Top and Bottom

Feb 09, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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Abstract: This article describes the top-down and bottom-up worlds of data governance and how they play off each other. In the top-down world, governing committees or boards define the meaning of key data elements, along with policies, processes, and procedures to govern changes, troubleshoot...

Data Governance Part II: How to Create a Common Data Vocabulary

Feb 07, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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This article addresses the key challenge facing most global companies: lack of a common vocabulary for doing business. Internally, companies are a proverbial tower of Babel, communicating at cross-purposes with data and metrics that are inconsistently or ambiguously defined. This article provides...