In this age of information, to say that the volume of data is exploding is a stark understatement. This big bang of big data is estimated to grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025, ...

Note that there are numerous web standard ontologies for data catalog, metadata, glossaries, and lineage that should be reused: DCAT to represent a data catalog; Dublin Core to represent metadata; ...

With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new ...

During a presentation at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week, the director of data science for Walmart Labs shared how the company’s new GPU-based demand forecasting model achieved a ...

AWS has notified customers of its Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 service that it will cease supporting the offering at the end of 2024. Replacing v1 in the Aurora Serverless range, which supports ...

Never before have the challenges of big data–how we store it, manage it, govern it, and use it–been so pressing. Advances in artificial intelligence may be the driving force in 2024, but that doesn’t ...

ORC, Parquet, and Avro are also machine-readable binary formats, which is to say that the files look like gibberish to humans. If you need a human-readable format like JSON or XML, then you should ...

The folks at EDB are now taking a crack at the problem. About a year ago, the Postgres backer began an R&D effort to create a scale-out version of Postgres, which would put it into competition with ...

When you look at PC OEMs, you’ll notice there are two product paths they typically take. The most popular is to build a high variety of products, even though they can’t afford to market any one of ...

On the dollars and cents front, Research and Markets predicts the global big data and business analytics market to reach $448 billion in spending by 2027. That figure, which represents hardware and ...

Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot ...

Data scientists spend about 45% of their time on data preparation tasks, including loading and cleaning data, according to a survey of data scientists conducted by Anaconda. The company also analyzed ...