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Welcome to our Big Data blog for CIOs, IT managers and analysts!

Here, we talk business, not code. Being experts in rendering big data services, we write about complicated issues in a clear way, focusing on how big data can contribute to solving your business tasks. Here, you’ll read about the challenges that big data can bring and the ways to overcome them, find big data technologies contrasted and use cases clearly described.

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Cassandra vs. HBase: twins or just strangers with similar looks?
Big Data, CIO Blog, Data Analytics

Cassandra vs. HBase: twins or just strangers with similar looks?

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.
By Alex Bekker
Cassandra Performance: The Most Comprehensive Overview You’ll Ever See
Big Data, Data Analytics

Cassandra Performance: The Most Comprehensive Overview You’ll Ever See

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.
By Alex Bekker
Alternative Approaches to Implementing Your Data Lake
CIO Blog, Big Data, Data Analytics

Alternative Approaches to Implementing Your Data Lake

We look at different approaches to data lake design and implementation and contemplate if there exists a preferred technology among the available stack.
By Irene Mikhailouskaya (Makaranka)
How Big Data Influences Your IoT Solution
Internet of Things, Big Data, Data Analytics

How Big Data Influences Your IoT Solution

We look at the specifics of IoT big data, as well as describe what important things you should consider prior to designing and implementing IoT data storage and analysis.
By Alex Bekker
Dirty, clean or cleanish: what’s the quality of your big data?
Big Data, Data Analytics

Dirty, clean or cleanish: what’s the quality of your big data?

When it comes to data quality, big data can be somewhat deceptive. See what exactly quality big data is, how you can get it and what cacao has to do with all this.
By Alex Bekker
Apache Cassandra vs. Hadoop Distributed File System: When Each is Better
CIO Blog, Big Data, Data Analytics

Apache Cassandra vs. Hadoop Distributed File System: When Each is Better

Our big data consultants compare Apache Cassandra against Hadoop Distributed File System and describe their key functional differences. Find out which of the two is a better choice for your project and which one shows better performance.
By Alex Bekker
Buried under big data: security issues, challenges, concerns
Big Data, Data Analytics, Information Security

Buried under big data: security issues, challenges, concerns

Big data security concerns are the ones to beware of or else your big data ship can sink. Learn the key big data security challenges to never let that happen.
By Alex Bekker
A Comprehensive Guide to Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Data Analytics, CIO Blog, Big Data

A Comprehensive Guide to Real-Time Big Data Analytics

Our big data consultants have come up with an easy guide to real-time big data analytics. We explain the term and describe a typical architecture, as well as share our thoughts about whether real-time analytics can be a competitive advantage.
By Alex Bekker
Big data: a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven? Exploring big data problems
Big Data, CIO Blog, Data Analytics

Big data: a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven? Exploring big data problems

Unlike challenges, big data problems are conceptual and have a much deeper nature. What are they and do they have the power to threaten your business? Find out here.
By Alex Bekker
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