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Apache Iceberg promises to change cloud-based data analytics

Feature By 2015, Netflix had completed its move from an on-premises data warehouse and analytics stack to one based around…

Feb 5, 2023 Yves Mulkers 12M views 4 min read

Snowflake, AWS Warm Up to Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg, the table format that ensures consistency and streamlines data partitioning in demanding analytic environments, is being adopted by…

Feb 5, 2022 Yves Mulkers 46M views 3 min read

Compare Hadoop vs. Spark vs. Kafka for your big data strategy

Big data became popular about a decade ago. The falling cost of storage led many enterprises to retain much of…

Nov 21, 2021 Yves Mulkers 33M views 3 min read

Apache Iceberg: The Hub of an Emerging Data Service Ecosystem?

Engineers at Netflix and Apple created Apache Iceberg several years ago to address the performance and usability challenges of using…

Feb 13, 2021 Yves Mulkers 109M views 4 min read

How Facebook Accelerates SQL at Extreme Scale

Serving SQL queries on a petabyte of data is one thing, but delivering it at Facebook’s scale is something else…

Sep 4, 2020 Yves Mulkers 68M views 3 min read

Compatibility between the Big Data vendors

What the Big Data vendors have to offer? Finally that the Big Data wars have pretty much ended, we have…

Aug 7, 2018 Yves Mulkers 36M views 2 min read

Top Big Data Processing Frameworks

A discussion of 5 Big Data processing frameworks: Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Storm, and Samza. An overview of each is given…

Nov 7, 2017 Yves Mulkers 100M views 4 min read

Pig vs Hive vs SQL – Difference between the Big Data Tools

Hadoop is the hot new technology and SQL is the old, tried and tested tool for diving deep into big…

Oct 31, 2017 Yves Mulkers 166M views 4 min read

5 Career Paths in Big Data and Data Science, Explained

Sexiest job… massive shortage… blah blah blah. Are you looking to get a real handle on the career paths available…

Oct 30, 2017 Yves Mulkers 37M views 4 min read

How Analytics Has Changed in the Last 10 Years (and How It’s Stayed the Same)

Ten years ago, Jeanne Harris and I published the book Competing on Analytics, and we’ve just finished updating it for…

Oct 22, 2017 Yves Mulkers 125M views 3 min read