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August 2018, Vol. 1, No. 3

Big data processing could be the way all data is processed

Have you noticed yet? Those geeky big data platforms based on clusters of commodity nodes running open source parallel processing algorithms are evolving into some seriously advanced IT functionality. The popular branded distributions of the Apache projects, including Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR, are no longer simply made up of relatively basic big data batch query tools, such as Hadoop MapReduce, the way they were 10 years ago. We've seen advances in machine learning, SQL-based transaction support, in-memory acceleration, interactive query performance, streaming data handling, enterprise IT data governance, protection and security. And even container services, scheduling and management are on a new level. Big data platforms now present a compelling vision for the future of perhaps all IT data processing. Wait, do I really mean all IT data center processing will be big data processing? Most of us are just getting used to the idea of investing in and building out functional data lakes to capture and collect tons of ...

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