Much of the focus on real-time big data has been on the capture and processing of real-time unstructured data from machines, sensors, web pages, and other Internet of Things (IoT) sources, but for a ...

Over the past three years, data analytics has been a "digestive" exercise, with volumes of man- and machine-created data amalgamated, stored, indexed, and probed for intelligent gems that can ...

Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

The new Amazon Athena tool from Amazon Web Services Inc.(AWS) enables serverless queries of large amounts of data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), obviating the need to spin up ...

If you’re a CMO today, I expect you are chomping at the bit to get into this whole “big data” craze: taking the data sets you have already collected and mining them for insights and trends you can ...

Big Data is supposed to level the business playing field, but up until now it has not. Because even though it’s cheaper to store data in Hadoop or to work with open source NoSQL in theory, it’s too ...

Have you ever hesitated to explore powerful data tools because of the fear of hidden costs or complex setups? If so, you’re not alone. Many aspiring data enthusiasts and professionals shy away from ...

Benjamin is a business consultant, coach, designer, musician, artist, and writer, living in the remote mountains of Vermont. He has 20+ years experience in tech, an educational background in the arts, ...

Elad Israeli is cofounder and CPO of SiSense. Big Data is a vague term so business user beware. You have to understand what big data can actually do and what are its limitations. As you map your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. In an era where almost everything is touted as being “big data” how do ...