The Zettabyte challenge
IDC published a White Paper about the challenge of Big Data Volume in a data-driven world. IDC...
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Category: BigData
Q&A on Data Integration and Big Data
Roberto Zicari did a Q&A with me about Data Integration and Big Data. Covered topics are Data...
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NoSQL, NewSQL, cloud-native databases
The first NoSQL databases were created in the 2000s. Companies like Google, Amazon, Twitter &...
Read MoreDOAG Big Data Days 2018
DOAG Big Data Days 2018 took place in Dresden from 20-Sep-2018 to 21-JUN-2018 with talks around Data capital, Data catalog, Streaming, Kafka, Data Lake, visualization, and geodata. There was also a hands-on workshop about Big...
Read MoreTDWI Munich 2018 – AI, Data Catalog and Automation&Agility
TDWI 2018 took place in Munich from 25-JUN-2018 to 28-JUN-2018. This blog post summarizes some of my impressions on the topics AI, Data Catalog and Automation&Agility. Artificial Intelligence AI was the main topic in...
Read MoreMetadata Management reloaded
Metadata is data about data. It used to be so simple with RDBMS and defined schemas. Variety creates the biggest challenge to derive metadata on-the-fly. What about schema-on-read? Schema-on-read applies the schema when data is retrieved.
Read MoreDoes Big Data stand in the way to derive value from data?
„Big Data is nothing but a marketing campaign that was designed to put money in the pockets of technology vendors and their collaborators.“ (Stephen Few: Big Data, Big Dupe – Analytics Press 2018, page 31)
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Data Modeling Zone, Düsseldorf 2017
The European Data Modeling Zone (DMZ) took place in Düsseldorf from 23-OCT-2017 to 25-OCT-2017....
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Current trends in Data Management by BARC
Dr. Carsten Bange from Business Application Research Center (BARC) presented trends in...
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Lambda Architecture, Master Dataset and Data Vault
The Lambda Architecture got known after Nathan Marz’ and James Warren’s book about Big...
Read MoreDataBeat week 05/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week. Data Architecture “Immutability changes everything” by Pat Helland deals with immutability as a key architectural concept....
Read MoreDataBeat week 04/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week. Data Storage “Introducing Espresso – LinkedIn’s hot new distributed document store” by Aditya Auradkar contains...
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