by Mike Barlow
Five or six years ago, analysts working with big datasets made queries and got the results back overnight. The data world was revolutionized a few years ago when Hadoop and other tools made it possible to get the results from queries in minutes. But the revolution continues. Analysts now demand sub-second, near real-time query results. Fortunately, we have the tools to deliver them. This report examines too...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Jeffrey Needham
In Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything, Jeffrey Needham enlightens Fortune 500 enterprises about the Big Data ecosystem as they begin to channel their data from stranded silos into an accessible reservoir of possibility and discovery. This book explains where commercial supercomputing came from, as well as its impact on the future of computing....
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics 
by Sunila Gollapudi
Organizations are leveraging the use of data and analytics to gain a competitive advantage over their opposition. Therefore, organizations are quickly becoming more and more data driven. With the advent of Big Data, existing Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions are becoming obsolete, and a requisite for new agile platforms consisting of all the aspects of Big Data has become inevitable. From...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Anghel Leonard
Hibernate and MongoDB are a powerful combination of open source persistence and NoSQL technologies for today's Java-based enterprise and cloud application developers. Hibernate is the leading open source Java-based persistence, object relational management engine, recently repositioned as an object grid management engine. MongoDB is a growing, popular open source NoSQL framework, especially popular am...
Price: $47.27 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Russell Jurney
Mining big data requires a deep investment in people and time. How can you be sure you're building the right models? With this hands-on book, you'll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications with Hadoop.Using lightweight tools such as Python, Apache Pig, and the D3.js library, your team will create an agile environment for exploring data, starting with ...
Price: $7.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
SDN: Software Defined Networks
by Thomas D. Nadeau, Ken Gray
Explore the emerging definitions, protocols, and standards for SDN - software-defined, software-driven, programmable networks - with this comprehensive guide. Two senior network engineers show you what's required for building networks that use software for bi-directional communication between applications and the underlying network infrastructure.This vendor-agnostic book also presents several SDN use ...
Price: $46.34 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Kevin Schmidt, Christopher Phillips
Although you don't need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it can still be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud by using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop framework in Amazon Web Services (AWS).Authors Kevin Schmidt and Christopher Phillips demonstrate best ...
Price: $28.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Kathleen Ting, Jarek Jarcec Cecho
Integrating data from multiple sources is essential in the age of big data, but it can be a challenging and time-consuming task. This handy cookbook provides dozens of ready-to-use recipes for using Apache Sqoop, the command-line interface application that optimizes data transfers between relational databases and Hadoop.Sqoop is both powerful and bewildering, but with this cookbook's problem-solution-d...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Bob DuCharme
Gain hands-on experience with SPARQL, the RDF query language that's bringing new possibilities to semantic web, linked data, and big data projects. This updated and expanded edition shows you how to use SPARQL 1.1 with a variety of tools to retrieve, manipulate, and federate data from the public web as well as from private sources.Author Bob DuCharme has you writing simple queries right away before pro...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, Marck Vaisman
There has been intense excitement in recent years around activities labeled "data science," "big data," and "analytics." However, the lack of clarity around these terms and, particularly, around the skill sets and capabilities of their practitioners has led to inefficient communication between "data scientists" and the organizations req...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013