Category: Data Stack

We use databases to store, organize, query, and process structured data in computer systems quickly and efficiently. In this post, I will highlight how two leading databases, MySQL and Oracle, are different. Without delay, let’s now jump into the details…

Continue reading MySQL vs Oracle: Key Differences Compared

Nearly everyone in the IT world has heard the quote from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg about the need for speed and performance in technology—“Move fast, break things.” While that might apply to social media platforms, there is less forgiveness for breaking…

Continue reading 10 Minutes To A High-Performance Big Data Stack. Really.

Your company sits on an immense treasure trove of data, but tapping this data and accessing its value can be a challenge. The complexity of legacy systems is compounded by internal teams that need various combinations of system data in easily…

Continue reading Get Stacked: Designing a High Performance, High ROI Data Stack

The data industry continues to impress with new tools being released every month. While we all love choices, the current data stack landscape can be overwhelming. We’re here to help separate the players from the wanna-bes and have created a…

Continue reading Top 10 Tools For A Dangerously Effective Data Stack In 2018

Panoply, Stitch and Chartio today announced the availability of the world’s first Automatic Cloud Data Stack. The combined offering enables data analysts and business users to connect to disparate cloud applications and databases and gain business insight by visualizing their…

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Long before there was big data, there were computing solutions designed to store, organize, and analyze data. But just like the job of a big data architect, it’sboth bigger anddifferent thanthat of other data architects, so too is thejobof the solutions…

Continue reading Selecting a Big Data Solution: Top 10 Questions to Ask

If you’re looking for a solution for processing huge chuncks of data, then there are lots of options these days. Depending on your use case and the type of operations you want to perform on data, you can choose from…

Continue reading Apache Spark Architecture, Use Cases and Issues

The cloud, unlike the Force, is not a mystical energy that surrounds us and binds us.Yet the word cloud has been attributed sorcerous properties which antiquitate your IT infrastructure and empower you to endlessly grow according to your needs without…

Continue reading Castles in the Cloud: Tips for Cloud Infrastructure