Behavioral data isn’t just for e-commerce anymore. Thanks to advances in in-store technology, physical retailers can now capture the same kind of insights into how shoppers move, pause, browse and ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

Almost every app we use or develop has to store data for one purpose or another. It’s not all the same data, either — some apps need access to settings, images, and much more. The big question is how ...

Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for ...

Businesses are generating vast amounts of event data across clouds, applications, and 3rd party SaaS. Too often this data is siloed, sampled, and thrown out to save cash. But here’s the thing: The ...

Most Android apps will need to persist user data at sometime. There are different ways to store user data, but SQLite databases are a very convenient and speedy method of saving user (or app) data and ...

A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year. It all adds up: PowerPoints and ...

Bonobos men's clothing store has suffered a massive data breach exposing millions of customers' personal information after a cloud backup of their database was downloaded by a threat actor. Bonobos ...