Companies have long accepted that with the explosion in data volumes described in this Analytics Week article. this Inside Big Data article and elsewhere, that Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) is the only way to deal with today’s data processing requirements. This Microsoft tech blog post outlines the reasons for moving to MPP for data processing. MPP systems…
If you’ve just downloaded Kognitio on Hadoop, you’re probably wondering how the software will complement your existing BI tools, and support your fellow business users. The next step is getting your technical team on board, so they can install it onto your existing infrastructure. The below facts and stats will give your engineers all the…
The MapR Hadoop distribution has unique benefits and extra capabilities that make it a desirable choice for many companies. Our new version of Kognitio, specifically for MapR, takes full advantage of MapR’s improved file system technology by accessing MapR POSIX APIs instead of HDFS API. Kognitio’s SQL engine for MapR offers a real enterprise-level alternative…
TCP is supposed to guarantee that all bytes sent by one endpoint of a connection will be received, in the same order, by the other endpoint. In this article we’ll identify and demonstrate a wrinkle in the Linux implementation of TCP SYN cookies. The client can connect and send two packets, but the server’s TCP…
SQL has been around for a long time, and we occasionally see attempts to displace it as the language of choice for analyzing data. You can find a whole page of query languages listed here, for example. So why is SQL still needed? 1. Wide adoption Firstly, we should look at how widely used SQL…