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Yes, plus some sort of analytics-focused data warehouse (Teradata, etc.). I am almost certain though their analytics team is outsourced to a major contractor like Lockheed Martin.

I forget the exact numbers, but a single year's worth of Medicare part D claims data will be on the order 1TB. That doesn't include the beneficiary and provider datasets (which lin…

The comments here do a pretty good job explaining the technical details and common use cases. If, however, you'd like a more narrative-based explanation, you might want to check ou…

I would imagine something like Cassandra scaling better (both on the reads & writes), but I'd suspect you'd have to change your data model quite a bit to see those benefits. If you…

If you're using Vagrant, you'll have to manually shut off the VM via `vagrant halt`. If you're just trying to get started with Docker, Boot2Docker ( https://github.com/boot2docker/…

Here's mine: Ferry is a tool to help developers create (virtual) clusters on their local machines using Docker. Ferry supports Hadoop, Cassandra, Spark, and GlusterFS/Open MPI. Git…

For those know a bit more, is this basically equivalent to CQL for Cassandra except for HBase?

It's interesting, my experience with companies here in the U.S. (mainly SMBs) are that they feel much more comfortable using a SaaS compared to adopting an internal NoSQL store. Gr…

I agree that's a bit short sighted, but I think it's one of perspective. The mistake most people make is to believe that Oracle (and other relational DB vendors) are competing dire…

If you want a relatively simple way to provision a Hadoop cluster locally, you may want to try out Ferry ( http://ferry.opencore.io ). It's based off Docker, so in theory, you coul…