You have a big data project. You understand the problem domain, you know what infrastructure to use, and maybe you’ve even decided on the framework you will use to process all that data, but one ...

Today MathWorks rolled out Release 2016b with new capabilities that simplify working with big data in MATLAB. Engineers and scientists can now more easily work with data too big to fit in memory.

The Apache Software Foundation’s stable of open-source projects continues to grow, with the addition of two more top-level projects in the past 24 hours. They include a Google Inc.-backed unified ...

Big data is less predictable than traditional data, and therefore requires special consideration when building models. Here are some things to keep in mind. Image: iStock/z_wei Data modeling is a ...

For decades, relational databases have been the go-to solution for storing and managing structured data. Built on the principles of ACID properties ( Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability ), ...

Rice University is providing an express lane for data analysis jobs and their potential $60,000-plus salary. The Houston campus is taking the coding boot camp model, popularized in recent years for ...

Fueled by the rise of big data and real-time data analytics, the database market has grown exponentially over the last decade. However, the introduction of a multitude of specialized databases has ...