Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management software and data analytics tools – all critical components of an effective operational or analytical data system. But all those ...

A key lesson was to measure what matters. From the outset, we defined clear success metrics—latency reduction, resource efficiency and cost improvement.

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

Big data has taken center stage in recent years, with companies in a huge range of industries beginning to understand the opportunities it can bring. Yet, I find there is still a lack of understanding ...

A flaw in code for handling Parquet, Apache’s open-source columnar data file format, allows attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30065, is a ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the database system space. Running The Bases By 2025 the total amount of digital data generated, gathered, ...