Insights and Must-Knows
from the Big Data Blog

Mansour Raad, senior software architect at Esri, recently used DataRush in a workflow demo at the DevSummit in Palm Springs, CA.  His work in spatial analytics shows heatmap data visualization for trend detection ...

The KNIME community is growing. The turnout at the recent KNIME User Workshop in Zurich attracted over 150 people from Europe, the US, Japan, Australia and elsewhere – a new record for the event, now in its 6th year. While traditionally known for managing complex chemical and bio-informatics data pipelines, KNIME is increasingly being adopted for data mining in other areas such as customer analytics, financial services, risk assessment and social networks where there are many opportunities for extracting more value from big data.

Pervasive Big Data & Analytics Chief Technologist Jim Falgout recently had an opportunity to speak to the Bay Area Hadoop User Group (HUG), along with Mukund Madhugiri and Baljit Deot of Yahoo! and Hari Shreedharan of Cloudera. Jim discussed the major barriers to effective Hadoop deployments in the enterprise – complexity and the steep learning curve of MapReduce.

This is exciting news! Opera Solutions is spotlighting its use of Pervasive DataRush™ on its blog....

A look at the Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey and the KDnuggets Analytics, Data Mining, Big Data Software Poll, with particular attention to the analytics tools rated highest in popularity and customer satisfaction: STATISTICA, R, Rapid Miner, and KNIME.

Last month, Forrester Research released a report, “ Expand Your Digital Horizon With Big Data,” for CIOs that focused on how they should approach big data in order to take full advantage of it for their businesses. It addressed how big data is influencing markets across industries and is prevalent in various business sectors, such as healthcare, web marketing and telecommunications.

To help enterprises learn more about big data and how it fits with their traditional data warehouse and data mart, Pervasive DataRush and Karmasphere are hosting a webinar titled, "Big Data: The Role, Value and Best Practices of Hadoop."

We had the pleasure of meeting with David Linthicum last month to get his thoughts on Big Data.

We are in Washington D.C. this week exhibiting at the FOSE show and we're showing this awesome demo that we've been working on. Pervasive has taken Pervasive DataRush to new levels in order to...

Pervasive Software’s Chief Integration Technologist Paul Dingman will be a presenter at Hadoop Summit 2011 on June 29,...

If you’ve explored our website lately, you may have noticed that we now offer a daily news aggregator called Big Data Analytics Digest....

Pervasive Software is a proud sponsor and exhibitor of GigaOM’s Structure Big Data 2011 taking place on March 23 in New York City. ...

Attending the O'Reilly Strata Conference, I received lots of food for thought about the future of Big Data, as well as further validation that Pervasive DataRushTM is a good framework to respond to many...

January, February and March will be busy months for our technology evangelists. Pervasive DataRush Director of Product Management Davin Potts, Pervasive DataRush Chief Technologist Jim Falgout and Pervasive...

The Intel Concurrency Checker can be used to evaluate the performance scaling of applications on multi-core systems and to help further optimize applications. It’s a tool that is used to check application...

We’ll show you how on Dec. 8 Like most software organizations yours probably needs a cost-effective approach to deliver analytics or other data-intensive solutions amid increasing data volumes and growing...

We've been working hard here at Pervasive and DataRush 4.4.1 is now available for download. Don't let the small version number increment fool you, there are many worthwhile changes to DataRush. Including...

Did you notice the sea change taking place in big data computing?

Multicore processors are redefining the compute density of a single server. When fully leveraged with the right software, multicore...

Security spending in a downturn is under tight scrutiny. PricewaterhouseCoopers found this to be the case when it surveyed 7,200 executives in over 130 countries for its 2010 “Trial by Fire” report. One...

You probably understand that Pervasive DataRush is a fast processing engine and is great for data preparation, but did you know that the just released version 4.4 also includes an analytics platform? Pervasive DataRush for Analytics now allows users to analyze their entire gigantic data set (instead of just a sample) and make use of the newly-available core analytics library to perform data mining operations leveraging the high throughput and scalability of the Pervasive DataRush engine.

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Gordon Brown posted a blog on Redfin commenting on a presentation by Jeff Hammerbacher discussing the use of Hadoop at Facebook.Having solved many big data problems at Facebook, Jeff has great credibility...

And we’re not done yet—Pervasive DataRush is now approaching 2 Terabytes/Hour on a single server!!

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And we’re not done yet—Pervasive DataRush is now approaching 2 Terabytes/Hour on a single server!!

Pervasive® DataRush™...

As Intel and Advanced Micro Devices battle it out for processor dominance, we as consumers are finding faster and faster computers for increasingly lower prices. Quad core systems are now common...

I mentioned in an earlier blog, the contest...

In a recent blog, Robin Bloor discusses how parallelism is required for software to go really fast on todays multicore computers. He brings up this point about MapReduce: using MapReduce on problems...

Processors continue to become more "core dense" as we approach a watershed mark in multicore development. We've approached the point where a 4 processor system is taking on the characteristics of a "cluster...

Traditionally Java Performance has always been a bit of a misnomer.  In the early days of Java 1.1, performance was a secondary consideration after ease of programming and usability.  But the last few years have seen some amazing performance enhancements in the JVM.  Escape Analysis, Compressed References, and other JDK7 performance enhancements.  I'm not even including the myriad of smaller changes that the Sun JVM engineers are working on.

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Government data, when made available and presented effectively, can provide useful information to organizations and citizens alike. Star News Online presents compelling possibilities in the article, “Local Governments Offer Data to Miners.”...

This article by Gordon Haff provides some interesting insights into Intel's thinking around software parallelization. At Pervasive, we talk about the trade-off of using Java to build a framework like...

I was lucky enough to present and attend Jazoon 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.  My talk How badly written optimizations can undo automatic JVM benefits was...

This year's JavaOne was a great success.  It was vibrant, and filled...