Organizations have made investments in 'small data' for years and many are achieving data governance, or at least understand the gap they need to fill. They know how to work with the relatively small ...

Bill Inmon, who’s widely known as the father of the data warehouse, shared a warning for data-loving organizations at the recent Data + AI Summit: If you don’t adopt the precepts of the data lake ...

They eventually turned into “data swamps,” leaving data scientists and engineers cleansing and preparing data 50-80% of their time.

Data swamps, of course, are the opposite of what organizations intend when they set out to build a data lake: filled with disorganized, bad or even lost data. Data swamps are what happen when you ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

The vendor survey of more than 500 business users released on Tuesday (July 17) by visual analytics specialist Arcadia Data found that 72 percent use data lakes to gather business intelligence.

At Data Summit Connect 2020, Thomas Cook, director of sales, Cambridge Semantics, described the laborious process of manually discovering, sorting, cleaning, and conforming silo'd data that consumes ...

Despite dampened hopes for data lakes, AKA “data swamps,” businesses — especially in healthcare — can’t return to locking carefully curated data under governance by a select few ...

Imperva has agreed to buy Goldman Sachs-backed jSonar in a deal that will forge a data security powerhouse offering a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to protect modern data architectures ...

In the big data world of today, issues abound. People discuss structured data versus unstructured data; graph versus JSON versus columnar data stores; even batch processing versus streaming.