The hottest big data tools in 2025 include Amazon Aurora DSQL, Snowflake Intelligence, and the Databricks Lakebase.

Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change. A whole crop of new contenders are ...

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 data is predicted to transform almost everything about how we live our lives, and skilled professionals are needed to analyze that data for important insights. With the rapid advance of computer ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

Less than a year ago, Amazon launched a new big data database named Athena. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy framed the announcement around the theme of giving enterprises “superpowers.” Yet as we ...

Big data has taken center stage in recent years, with companies in a huge range of industries beginning to understand the opportunities it can bring. Yet, I find there is still a lack of understanding ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. The total volume of data created or replicated globally reached 64.2 ...

As the default database for Hadoop, you'd expect HBase to be more popular than it is, but its time may already have passed A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in ...

Christena Garduno is the CEO of Media Culture, a brand response agency specializing in media planning and buying for nearly 30 years. Big data is transforming the relationship between companies and ...

The massive amounts of data collected over time that are difficult to analyze and handle using common database management tools. The data are analyzed for marketing trends in business as well as in ...