One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

This paper, compiled by Prof. Huadong Guo and his team, discusses the potential and utility of Big Earth Data through a number of case studies to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The explosion of new types of data in great volumes from many different sources that has come to be known as big data has resulted in a false premise that lurks on the sidelines of many discussions.

We are fortunate to live in an exciting time where multiple technological leaps are occurring. Specifically, I am thinking of the mobile industry transition from 4G to 5G, and the cross-industry IT ...

This post is brought to you by Comcast Business Class . There’s a lot of big talk about “Big Data,” but it’s difficult to understand exactly what it all means. When you begin tossing around high-level ...

According to its local government, Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, plans to become "China's data valley" by 2020 to better serve the real economy and optimize its regulation ...

Many of the conversations taking place around the Internet of Things (IoT) are incomplete without a mention of big data. Connected devices, sensors, and algorithms all operate in ways that involve ...

We don't much care for big government using big data to monitor phone calls; and we worry about how many big data databases we may be in and for what purposes. In fact, by 2020, according to and EMC ...

In the future, we may own much less and share much more. And if we do, it will all be down to big data. In the last century, owning things was the marker of the middle class. Those who had more money ...

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