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A round-up of business intelligence, IoT and data articles across the Internet.
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Inside the Hekaton: SQL Server 2014's database engine deconstructed - Register

Inside the Hekaton: SQL Server 2014's database engine deconstructed - Register | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Inside the Hekaton: SQL Server 2014's database engine deconstructed Register These parallel giants consume data at a staggering rate, spending much of their time waiting on the disk subsystem to supply it, whilst disk-oriented mechanisms have...
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Great information on SQL Server 2014's new features

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April 18, 2014 10:14 AM
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Tips to check and improve your storage IO performance with MongoDB

Tips to check and improve your storage IO performance with MongoDB | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
I’m speaking at MongoDB World this June. Come hear from me and other MongoDB experts!
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Great article on testing IOPS with MongoDB.  Very important as this is almost certainly to be your primary hardware bottleneck.

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April 17, 2014 1:45 PM
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When Machine Learning Isn’t Learning - Analytics Matters

When Machine Learning Isn’t Learning - Analytics Matters | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
@billfranksga says true #machinelearning is closer to artificial intelligence than simple #data mining http://t.co/9MhZNLrTNY
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Insightful.

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April 17, 2014 1:38 PM
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Silver Spring, MongoDB team up to scale real-time smart grid data platform - Energy Business Review

Silver Spring, MongoDB team up to scale real-time smart grid data platform Energy Business Review Silver Spring Networks has partnered with MongoDB to use the MongoDB database to seamlessly capture and store high volumes of rapidly changing,...
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Good use case for mongoDB storing real time "Internet of things" data.

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April 17, 2014 1:31 PM
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Robert Haas: Why The Clock is Ticking for MongoDB

Robert Haas: Why The Clock is Ticking for MongoDB | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Robert Haas (@robertmhaas): Why The Clock is Ticking for MongoDB http://t.co/23WHnoZUR5
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Interesting, especially when paired with the Schireson's interview, but I see a future where the "data warehouse" really is a data analysis platform with multiple technologies under the hood, each serving in a capacity that fits particular work loads.  The truth is, the modern data warehouse will have relational databases, some flavor of Hadoop and some flavor of a NoSQL database like MongoDB.

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April 17, 2014 11:20 AM
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Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison :: Software architect Kristof Kovacs

Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison :: Software architect Kristof Kovacs | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it

While SQL databases are insanely useful tools, their monopoly in the last decades is coming to an end. And it's just time: I can't even count the things that were forced into relational databases, but never really fitted them. (That being said, relational databases will always be the best for the stuff that has relations.) 

 

But, the differences between NoSQL databases are much bigger than ever was between one SQL database and another. This means that it is a bigger responsibility on software architects to choose the appropriate one for a project right at the beginning.

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This is an absolutely fantastic blog post on the various NoSQL databases out there.

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April 17, 2014 10:30 AM
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Microsoft Analytics Platform System Is 'Big Data In A Box' - Lifehacker Australia

Microsoft Analytics Platform System Is 'Big Data In A Box' - Lifehacker Australia | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Microsoft Analytics Platform System Is 'Big Data In A Box' Lifehacker Australia Today we announced that our Analytics Platform System is generally available — this is the evolution of the Parallel Data Warehouse product that now supports the...
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Good information on a pretty exciting product in the market.

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April 17, 2014 10:23 AM
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Structure Data 2014: Anthony Deighton - Qlik - YouTube

What's the last mile of #bigdata? Watch @QlikDeighton explain at @gigaom's Structure Data: http://t.co/a1NAURnFo2 #gigaomlive
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The last half of this video is what you want to watch.  Nifty

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April 16, 2014 11:21 AM
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Teradata launches Full-Throttle Performance

Prague and San Diego, April 8, 2014: Teradata, the analytic data platforms, marketing applications and services company, has launched its enterprise-class Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6750 platform (Teradata Active EDW). The Teradata Active EDW meets the largest, most demanding... http://www.technuter.com/storage/teradata-launches-full-throttle-performance.html


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Decent but short intro to the latest Teradata features

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April 16, 2014 11:07 AM
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Hadoop's ability to deliver business growth is worth the bother - TechRepublic

Hadoop's ability to deliver business growth is worth the bother - TechRepublic | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Hadoop's ability to deliver business growth is worth the bother
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Hadoop is going to be big, but today, its adoption is still small.
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Good insight into the challenges of Hadoop adoption.

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April 16, 2014 10:52 AM
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Deploy MongoDB to Azure: It's Never Been Easier

Deploy MongoDB to Azure: It's Never Been Easier | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it

This post is to continue the story of my MongoDB self-learning back in January. Also, the theme for March self-learning is about Windows Azure, thus I guess it’s a good opportunity to combine these two knowledge together. So, let’s continue the story now.

Basically, after the one-month MongoDB learning in January, I have successfully built a simple web application allowing users to add pinpoints on Google Map and store those info on MongoDB. However, all those are happening in local machine. So, how to do that if we would like to deploy it on, for example, Azure for the public to access?

Fortunately, with the help of Microsoft WebMatrix, the whole process is rather simple and straight-forward.Basically, after the one-month MongoDB learning in January, I have successfully built a simple web application allowing users to add pinpoints on Google Map and store those info on MongoDB. However, all those are happening in local machine. So, how to do that if we would like to deploy it on, for example, Azure for the public to access?

Fortunately, with the help of Microsoft WebMatrix, the whole process is rather simple and straight-forward.


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Good walkthrough of deploying MongoDB in Azure, very powerful.

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April 16, 2014 10:48 AM
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10 Things You Should Know About Running MongoDB at Scale

10 Things You Should Know About Running MongoDB at Scale | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Just because it's easy to install and get started and it fits the developer paradigm more naturally than a relational database, don't assume that MongoDB doesn't need proper care and feeding. And just because it performs ...
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Some good things to remember about deploying MongoDB

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April 15, 2014 4:50 PM
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Relieving the Pain of the BI Back Room with Data Warehouse Automation -- TDWI -The Data Warehousing Institute

Relieving the Pain of the BI Back Room with Data Warehouse Automation -- TDWI -The Data Warehousing Institute | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Data warehouse automation is more than simply automation of ETL development.
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Sadness.  Bill Inmon originally advocated an agile approach to building data warehouses in Building the Data Warehouse: Getting Started.  It was only later that a waterfall approach became popular.

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April 18, 2014 10:20 AM
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10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch - CIO Magazine

10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch CIO Magazine Platfora tries to simplify the data collection and analysis process, automatically transforming raw data in Hadoop into interactive, in-memory business intelligence, with no ETL or data warehousing...
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Good overview of the developing Hadoop ecosystem.

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April 17, 2014 2:23 PM
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Teradata vs Netezza vs Hadoop - Enterprise BI Software, Training & Books

Teradata vs Netezza vs Hadoop - Enterprise BI Software, Training & Books | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Tera-Tom here!  Isaac Newton changed the world when he brought us the concept of gravity and once said, “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”  The real gravity of big data is that there are...
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Shameless Nexus plug but some decent high-level info on the differences between these technologies.

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April 17, 2014 1:42 PM
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How to build a big data supply chain - InfoWorld

How to build a big data supply chain - InfoWorld | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
How to build a big data supply chain InfoWorld Once the process is established, the big data reference architecture can support these four common big data use case patterns, which enable actionable business intelligence: data warehouse...
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Decent.

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April 17, 2014 1:36 PM
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Google's Cloud Platform Gets Improved Hadoop Support With BigQuery And ... - TechCrunch

Google's Cloud Platform Gets Improved Hadoop Support With BigQuery And ... - TechCrunch | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Google's Cloud Platform Gets Improved Hadoop Support With BigQuery And ...
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Google has long made it possible for its users to run Hadoop — a framework for storing and processing large amounts of data — on its Cloud Platform.
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Further evidence of Google and Microsoft competing for this space.

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April 17, 2014 1:07 PM
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Retailers Do Hadoop

Retailers Do Hadoop | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
When Hadoop is integrated with modern retail operations, it dramatically reduces the cost of capturing, ingesting, storing and analyzing data.
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Good article, but I there are other problems in retail that can be solved by something more like mongoDB vs. Hadoop, like real time inventory systems.

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April 17, 2014 10:49 AM
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Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $125M From TPG, Salesforce At An $825M Valuation | TechCrunch

Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $125M From TPG, Salesforce At An $825M Valuation | TechCrunch | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $125 million in new funding in a round led by TPG Growth, the..
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This is interesting, will need to see what this is all about.

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April 17, 2014 10:27 AM
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Microsoft's new toolset brings analytics to 'ambient intelligence' - InfoWorld

Microsoft's new toolset brings analytics to 'ambient intelligence' - InfoWorld | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Microsoft's new toolset brings analytics to 'ambient intelligence'
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Microsoft has also released APS (Analytics Platform System), an update and expansion of what was formerly called the Parallel Data Warehouse.
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Huh, "ambient intelligence", I don't think that one is going to catch on.

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April 17, 2014 10:18 AM
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Big Data Basics Free eBook

Free eBook to Big Data Basics. An Introduction to Big Data and How It Is Changing Business
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This is more like a really long PowerPoint versus a whitepaper, but there are a few decent nuggets.  Not really indepth at all like what you would expect from a whitepaper.

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April 16, 2014 11:08 AM
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) AU1 released | James Serra's Blog

Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) AU1 released | James Serra's Blog | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Details on the AU1 release of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW).
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Good overview of enhancements, many of them exciting, like HDInsight integration and PolyBase improvements.

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April 16, 2014 10:55 AM
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MongoDB Tutorial 1 What is MongoDB?

http://zerotoprotraining.com This video explains what MongoDB is? What is NoSQL database in general?, Why was there a need for Document Oriented databases? D...
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Good intro to MongoDB

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April 16, 2014 10:51 AM
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MongoDB Steps Up To Enterprise Expectations - InformationWeek

MongoDB Steps Up To Enterprise Expectations - InformationWeek | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
insideBIGDATA MongoDB Steps Up To Enterprise Expectations InformationWeek Application developers are the biggest fans of MongoDB, but the vendor behind the product expects a major new release, announced Tuesday, to spread the love among database...
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Good information on MongoDB 2.6, finally some real enterprise capabilities.

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April 15, 2014 4:52 PM
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IT Convergence: Collaborate 14 “Outtake” A Primer on Exadata

IT Convergence: Collaborate 14 “Outtake” A Primer on Exadata | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Outtakes from #Collaborate14:

http://t.co/JYKNG7rnvz

A Primer on @oracleexadata

@IOUG #C14LV @COLLAB_OAUG
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Good primer on Oracle's Exadata appliance.

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