Data is at the center of most challenges facing our industry today, with business drivers such as new regulations, aggregated risk management, and deep customer insight all having critical data management implications. The term Big Data has become a common way to describe this, and while some of these challenges are associated with large volumes, […]
I started in digital publishing at the onset — when you had no choice but to go out and roll your own infrastructure. There simply were no other options. Building from scratch was long and arduous, but as most anyone of a certain age will tell you, across any industry, you have a deeper understanding […]
I remember the first time I wrote to a MySQL database. It was a simple JDBC program for test purposes, a bit more than Hello World but nonetheless designed to merely kick the tires of Java and JDBC, which were both relatively new at the time. With the Pet Store app not yet in existence, […]
After four exacting months, its done: MarkLogic and StorageReview worked together to develop the first actual NoSQL environment to benchmark storage that clearly illustrates the benefits of flash coupled with the industry’s fastest interconnect. The dataset included the publicly- available Wikipedia XML collection because of the inclusion of multi-language and non-ASCII text. See which devices […]
For many Star Trek fans, the image of a crewmember interacting with the ship’s computer stands in stark contrast to how we interact with our computers today. While we have progressed by leaps and bounds in the field of human-to-computer interaction, including even natural language processing, we are still a ways away from the seamless […]