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As enterprises increasingly rely on both real-time and historical data to drive business impact, the need to unify batch and streaming analytics has never been greater. According to IDC, the stream ...

In batch processing, if costs are not isolated, high-volume customers and products tend to subsidize lower-volume ones. This article reviews different types of batch activities and how they would be ...

Typically, most applications consist of both batch and online workloads. This is true even today, when most of our attention has turned to online and web-based interaction. Sure, online activities are ...

Developers are always looking for Big Data tools to make it faster and easier to build applications, with Hadoop as a preferred solution for storing and processing the data. Given that Big Data is on ...

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During its 18 months of operation in the early 1860s, the Pony Express was a shining example of the inextricable link between data delivery and data processing. While an innovation for its time, the ...

Streaming data records are typically small, measured in mere kilobytes, but the stream often goes on and on without ever stopping. Streaming data, also called event stream processing, is usually ...

Arla Foods’ new dairy plant in England provides ample evidence that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Head of engineering Soeren Vonsild describes Arla’s necessity this way. “In this dairy, ...

Hazelcast, the real-time distributed computing and caching platform, today announced it has been named a Strong Performer by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave(TM): Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 ...