Big Data Blog

Have a look at what smart grids powered by big data analytics have to offer for next-level maintenance, power quality monitoring and load management in the energy industry.

Learn about the difference between a data lake and a data warehouse, and define how to structure your big data solution in accordance with your business needs.

Find out what a big data warehouse is and what benefits it brings to the decision-making process.

Get an insight into the big data potential in the oil and gas industry and see how to drive profit by using predictive analytics.

Find out what data sources your small business can use to benefit from the powers of big data analytics.

Get inspired with real-life examples, follow a roadmap we share, and make your big data implementation a success.

As a manufacturer, you’re interested to see what data analytics can do for you? Then check out these 12 real-life examples for big data in manufacturing and see a nice and easy guide on how to start your big data action.

We conducted secondary research, which serves as a comprehensive overview of how companies use big data. Here, you’ll find the big data facts and statistics arranged by organization size, industry and technology. You’ll also discover real-life examples and the value that big data can bring.

Similar at first glance, Cassandra and HBase actually are quite different in terms of architecture, performance and data models. What are these differences and how do they influence the tasks that HBase and Cassandra perform? It’s all here.

Is it really true that Apache Cassandra performance is amazing? Explore Cassandra's data modeling, partitioning, denormalization, write and read performance and decide for yourself.