Shopzilla buys into big data for fast meta-shopping
VoltDB handles terabytes of daily updates, with up to 100,000 database writes per second, for comparison shopping service
NoSQL helps push the envelope of online advertising
Powered by the Aerospike NoSQL database, Acuity's real-time advertising exchange serves the right ads to the right eyeballs in record time
The real story of how big data analytics helped Obama win
HP Vertica played a major role, as did an org structure that centralized analytics and lowered barriers between teams
Giving big data publishing the royal treatment
U.K. royal society jumps into 21st century with the MarkLogic NoSQL database, opening 170 years of content to public view
Powering real-time marketing with big data analytics
Data integration, columnar database solution enable marketing agency to crunch hundreds of terabytes, deliver 360-degree view of customers
General Electric lays out big plans for big data
Drawing on sensor data collected by GE industrial products, a new wave of analytics will create vast opportunities across a range of industries
Astronomers crunch big data to map the galaxies
The first cloud analytics platform for astronomy uses machine learning to process hundreds of terabytes of imagery and metadata
Big data visualization: A big deal for eBay
As one of the world's largest e-commerce websites, eBay analyzes huge quantities of data -- with data visualization providing valuable insight across the company
Big data drives high performance for Cars.com
Analysis of Web user clickstreams and machine-generated log files helps auto shopping site Cars.com increase revenue and defend against malicious bots
Unraveling the mystery of multiple sclerosis with big data
Confronted by a varied, 250TB data set, researchers opted for a huge hardware upgrade and analytic techniques based on the R statistical language
Williams-Sonoma uses big data to zero in on customers
To target individual customers, Williams-Sonoma needed data from a broad swath of sources, a Hadoop platform, and a dashboard to make sense of it all
Facebook pushes the limits of Hadoop
You'd think that 100 petabytes would be big enough data for any business -- but not for Facebook
Fighting cancer with 3D big data visualization
In correlating huge patient and gene data sets, interactive 3D visualization lets researchers accelerate analysis and open up data to broader range of scholars
The big data journey has begun
Relentless data growth has conjured up new technologies for data analysis and unprecedented opportunities for insight
