The Little Book of BIG DATA, 2012 Edition

"A thorough yet concise introduction designed to make all aspects of Big Data easily understandable to the layperson. I recommend this book highly." - John Anderson, Marx and Fishburn IT Consultants

"This is the book IT professionals deploying Big Data initiatives need to buy for the non-techie 'suits' to which they report. Do so, and you'll save yourself a lot of time explaining rudiments." - Jane Bentley, New Paradigm Initiatives



Leading IT professional Noreen Burlingame provides an efficient, user-friendly, 15,000-word "brief" on the current status of "Big Data" analytics and how you can economically deploy this technology to increase your firm's profitability. Burlingame surveys all of today's leading Big Data analytics providers, explains the fundamentals of Hadoop-based research, and shows cost-effective strategies for leveraging Big Data metrics to your best advantage.



CONTENTS


Introduction

1
What is Big Data?

2
Hadoop

3
Amazon Elastic MapReduce as a Service - Including DynamoDB and How to Use it for Free

4
Cloudera (And Oracle's Big Data Appliance)

5
Datameer Big Data Analytics

6
EMC Hadoop-Enhanced Isilon NAS ... Plus Data Domain and Greenplum

7
Hadapt - Uniting Relational and Hadoop Environments

8
Hortonworks

9
IBM BigInsights, BigSheets, and Netezza Customer Intelligence

10
Informatica

11
Karmasphere Analyst and Studio

12
MapR Technologies and The Most Powerful, Elegant FREE Version of Hadoop Available Anywhere

13
Microsoft's Big Data Solution

14
The Role of the Data Scientist

15
RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop - The Industry's First Enterprise-Class Database Running Natively on Hadoop

16
DataStax (Including Coverage of the Free "Community Edition" of DataStax's Cassandra Implementation, with OpsCenter)

17
Pervasive DataRush