John Funge is cofounder and CEO of streaming data analytics platform provider BrightContext. When people think of big data, often it’s in terms of Hadoop clusters with gargantuan piles of data.

As part of the 2019 Big Data 100, we've put together a list of companies that provide on-premise and cloud systems and platforms that serve as the foundation for many big data initiatives.

By Ben Lorica As open source, big data tools enter the early stages of maturation, data engineers and data scientists will have many opportunities to use them to “work on stuff that matters”.

Comparing commercial Hadoop big data-styled analysis systems might get a little easier, thanks to a new benchmark from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The TPCx-HS benchmark ...

By integrating big data, existing water-control systems and detailed weather analysis, this system will be able to predict when tunnels will flood, improve models for storing and releasing water ...

Data is a big deal. The use of distributed systems also has implications for "Big Data". Theadvent of NoSQL options provides an opportunity for enterprises to bifurcate their data stream to accept and ...