Nothing is quite so personal for programmers as what language they use. Why a data scientist, engineer, or application developer picks one over the other has as much to do with personal preference and ...

No dramatic surprises are found in the latest ranking of programming languages by IEEE, which reported that Go is leading the ascending trend of Big Data-related languages that dominate the findings.

You have a big data project. You understand the problem domain, you know what infrastructure to use, and maybe you’ve even decided on the framework you will use to process all that data, but one ...

Concurrent Inc. today announced an upgrade of its Cascading development framework for building Big Data applications, offering more choices for working with the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Cascading 3.0, ...

To dramatically increase the ROI that corporations can gain from their big data, Xcalar announced availability of its business analytics platform, Xcalar 1.2, which gives the fastest, easiest, and ...

As companies grow increasingly data-centric in their decision making, product and services development, and their overall understanding of the world they work in, speed and agility are becoming ...

The Apache Software Foundation’s stable of open-source projects continues to grow, with the addition of two more top-level projects in the past 24 hours. They include a Google Inc.-backed unified ...

Big data is not a fad. We are just at the beginning of a revolution that will touch every business and every life on this planet. But loads of people are still treating the concept of big data as ...

The global big data market will grow from $18.3 billion in 2014 to a whopping $92.2 billion by 2026, representing a strong compound annual growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to Wikibon’s newly ...

Despite the ongoing economic downturn and employment instability caused by the novel COVID-19 virus, there is a growing determination to enhance professional skills and increase individual work ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how data & data-driven marketing are changing business. This article is more than 10 years old. Big data is new and ...