Xplenty can integrate various data sources on the cloud. One of the services it can integrate with is mLab, a MongoDB-as-a-service. This post will demonstrate how to connect them together.

Huge amounts of data are needed to calculate key performance indicators (KPIs), a luxury that only large enterprises were able to afford. This post series discusses how companies of all...

An overview of 12 open source and commercial SQL-on-Hadoop tools: Apache Hive, Apache Sqoop, Apache Phoenix, Impala, Presto, BigSQL, CitusDB, Hadapt, Jethro, Lingual, and HAWQ.

In his recent article "Turbocharge Your Porsche - Buy An Elephant", Bill Inmon, "the father of data warehousing", criticizes Cloudera for associating Big Data with the data warehouse, two totally...

Introducing Apache Hadoop to the organization can be difficult - everyone is trained and experienced in the old ways of SQL and all the analytics tools integrate with SQL. Certain...

Relational databases are here to stay - they are common, integrate with other information systems, do a good job of querying structured data, and people know how to use them....

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics were the most celebrated winter games on the net. Their official website had more visitors in one night than Vancouver 2010 had during the entire...

Big Data was always around in some form or another. At some point, businesses decided to use that information to learn what makes their clients tick with phrases like "sales...

We love things that are great in pairs, things like chocolate and vanilla, gin and tonic, and Simon and Garfunkel. This is why we are proud to announce the new...