Searching for the perfect campsite can be a hit-and-miss affair, as one seeks the perfect combination of a view, sufficient parking, and proximity to neighbors and services, among other factors. When it came to selecting a tool to manage its big data pipeline, the online reservation company Campspot didn’t have to look any further than…
We live in a world of big data and big compute. But what about big query engines? One of the startups developing software to keep up with big data and big compute is Voltron Data, which is headed by Josh Patterson. Patterson co-founded Voltron Data in 2021 with pandas creator Wes McKinney (a 2018 Person…
It is that time of year again–time for predictions! We start off the 2025 bonanza of forecasts, estimates, and prognostications with a topic that’s near and dear to our hearts here at BigDATAwire: data analytics. The world has seen all sorts of patterns for analytics: data lakes, data warehouses, in-memory analytics, and embedded analytics. But…
The IT team at Arity are cruising on the homestretch of a big project to load more than a trillion miles of driving data into a new database on Amazon S3. But if it wasn’t for a decision to switch out its engine from Spark to Starburst, the project would still be stuck in neutral….
Microsoft Ignite 2024 is taking place in Chicago this week, bringing together technology leaders and innovators from around the globe. The event explores how the latest updates to Azure, Copilot, Microsoft 365, Windows, and other Microsoft tools are set to share the future of business technology Over 80 new products and features have been unveiled…
Microsoft Ignite 2024 is taking place in Chicago this week, bringing together technology leaders and innovators from around the globe. The event explores how the latest updates to Azure, Copilot, Microsoft 365, Windows, and other Microsoft tools are set to share the future of business technology Over 80 new products and features have been unveiled…
College athletic recruiting is the Wild West these days. From NIL money and the (wide) opening of the transfer portal, to conference realignment and now the end of the national letters of intent program, the process of matching millions of amateur athletes with 2,800 college sports programs has turned into a free-for-all. But that chaos…
Starburst CEO Justin Borgman joins the Big Data Debrief to talk about the latest industry trends in table formats, Trino and Starburst’s cloud offerings — and maybe just a little bit of Hadoop for good measure. Borgman began his big data career in 2011 as a co-founder of Hadapt, which commercialized a Hadoop research project…
Starburst CEO Justin Borgman joins the Big Data Debrief to talk about the latest industry trends in table formats, Trino and Starburst’s cloud offerings — and maybe just a little bit of Hadoop for good measure. The post Starburst CEO Justin Borgman Talks Trino, Iceberg, and the Future of Big Data appeared first on Datanami….
Organizations that are in the market for analytics databases that can serve an enormous quantity of queries on massive sets of fast-changing data may want to check out the latest Gigaom Sonar report on real-time analytics databases. Real-time analytics databases are a relatively new product category that has emerged over the past few years to…
