
Big Data is in and of itself a new phenomenon, and keeping track of all the emergent technologies in the field can be dizzying. With that in mind, here are a few technologies to keep an eye on as they mature and evolve throughout 2013! 1. Cloudera Impala While Impala isn’t the newest on this list, it’s definitely one to watch out for in 2013. Cloudera’s implementation of real-time data processing in Hadoop is inspired- Hadoop’s disk-based storage format isn’t normally known for real-time ad-hoc query capability, but Impala uses some great open-source technologies to implement it. It uses the same metadata… View full post »