Big Data Blog

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.

Bookmark this page and stay tuned to find a lot of useful ideas!

Olga Baturina

Data Analytics & BI

Big Data

40 Stats and Real-Life Examples of How Companies Use Big Data

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.

May 3, 2019

Alex Bekker

Principal Architect, AI & Data Management Expert, ScienceSoft

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

Big Data

Data Analytics & BI

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

Jun 20, 2018

Irene Mikhailouskaya (Makaranka)

Data Analytics Researcher, ScienceSoft

Alternative Approaches to Implementing Your Data Lake

Big Data

Data Analytics & BI

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.

May 22, 2018

Alex Bekker

Principal Architect, AI & Data Management Expert, ScienceSoft

Internet of Things

Big Data

Data Analytics & BI

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.

Apr 13, 2018

Alex Bekker

Principal Architect, AI & Data Management Expert, ScienceSoft

Big Data

Data Analytics & BI

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.

Apr 10, 2018

Alex Bekker

Principal Architect, AI & Data Management Expert, ScienceSoft

Big Data

Data Analytics & BI

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.

Mar 30, 2018

Alex Grizhnevich

Process Automation and IoT Consultant, ScienceSoft

IoT and Big Data: Challenges and Applications

Internet of Things

Data Analytics & BI

Big Data

IoT and Big Data: Challenges and Applications

IoT generates volumes of big data which can be applicable to achieve progress in a number of sectors. However, there are specific features in IoT big data collecting, processing and applying which need to be considered in IoT development.

Mar 27, 2018

Alex Bekker

Principal Architect, AI & Data Management Expert, ScienceSoft

Big Data

Data Analytics & BI

Big Data: Examples, Sources and Technologies explained

While defining big data, we share multi-industry examples of its practical application, list its internal and external sources, as well as name most popular big data technologies.

Nov 4, 2017