One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

We are fortunate to live in an exciting time where multiple technological leaps are occurring. Specifically, I am thinking of the mobile industry transition from 4G to 5G, and the cross-industry IT ...

The explosion of new types of data in great volumes from many different sources that has come to be known as big data has resulted in a false premise that lurks on the sidelines of many discussions.

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

Big Data’s been overhyped and is destined to become a buzz kill of a buzz word, largely because the promise of Big Data has left a huge gap between potential and actual application. Setting out to ...

We don't much care for big government using big data to monitor phone calls; and we worry about how many big data databases we may be in and for what purposes. In fact, by 2020, according to and EMC ...

As businesses realize the importance of big data, adoption is on the rise. A recent survey from NewVantage Partners found that 62.5% of firms now have at least one big data project in production. But ...

There is plenty of buzz around the applications of big data, but what about actual applications -- mobile applications that depend on big data? At the Boston Big Data Festival, which took place at the ...

“You can’t handle the truth.” We all remember Jack Nicholson’s iconic words in A Few Good Men as a seminal moment in pop culture. Yet, that statement has a lot of relevance for companies and their ...

As AI continues to dominate the technology landscape, the data underlying the information these artificial intelligence solutions train on is under more scrutiny than ever. Here, data professionals ...

Big Earth Data Journal is calling for papers for a Special Issue on Addressing incomplete reference data for leveraging ...

The availability of big data analytical tools for use in cardiovascular practice and research will grow rapidly Big data analytical applications, such as predictive models for patient risk and ...