In my last two posts, we concluded two things. First, because of the need for broadcasting data across the internal network to enable the complete execution of a JOIN query in Hadoop, there is a potential for performance degradation for JOINs on top of files distributed using HDFS. Second, there are
“When it comes to the Internet of Things, the future clearly belongs to the Things”. I made this brash statement in a previous post (“Cloud encounters of the Fifth Kind”) referring to machine-to-machine (M2M) being the fastest growing component of non-human traffic on the Web. I say “brash” because that
In my previous post, I talked about how a bank realized that data quality was central to some very basic elements of its initiatives, such as know your customer (KYC), customer on-boarding and others. In this blog, let’s explore what this organization did to foster an environment of data quality
