DataStax, a provider of a NoSQL platform powered by Apache Cassandra, and Databricks, a company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, have formed a partnership to integrate Cassandra and Spark.

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In Greek mythology, Cassandra was granted the gift of prophesy, but cursed with an inability to convince others of her predictions - a sort of unbelievable "oracle," if you like. Ironically, in the ...

In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra can see into the future, but Apollo places a curse on her so that nobody believes her prophesies. In the context of today's NoSQL computing movement, Apache ...

In this brave new world of big data, a database technology called “Bigtable” would seem to be worth considering — particularly if that technology is the creation of engineers at Google, a company that ...

Like good carpenters, data engineers know that different tasks require different tools. Picking the right tools -- and knowing how to use them -- can be the most important part of any job. Here's how ...