Popular Posts - Treasure Data Blog - Part 68

Popular Posts

Treasure Data’s Plazma: Columnar Cloud Storage

TD has been developed by Hadoop experts. We get Hadoop, and, in many ways, it’s part of our core. As we have built out the platform, we noticed that the storage layer needs to be multi-tenant, elastic, and easy to manage while keeping the scalability......

Fluentd: Stepping Up Our Open Source Game

The entire TD team has been thinking a lot about our open source log collector tool. Based on the feedback from developers in the community, the maintainers (a couple of core maintainers are TD engineers) have been focusing on a few key components......

February 21, 2013

Strata 2013 in Santa Clara: See you there!

We are excited to announce that we are one of the Premier Exhibitors at the upcoming Strata 2013 Santa Clara! Strata, hosted by O'Reilly Media, is a widely respected conference where the best and brightest in big data and data science gather for three days and share their thoughts and insights. (m...

February 12, 2013

The Safe Triumvirate of Visualization, In-faux-graphics and All That

Over at 37Signal's Signal v. Noise, Noah Lorang recently cautioned against the recent infatuation with "creative" visualization techniques. He writes that these new visualization techniques are a mixed bag, and while some are truly innovative and help us understand our data better, many are not; hen...

December 12, 2012

Move Fast, Add Value: Why Hadoop-Veteran Viki Uses Treasure Data

Over the past year, we’ve done a lot to be proud of. We built a high performance, Hadoop-based data analytics platform from scratch. For next-generation ETL and real-time data collection, we authored td-agent and open-sourced it as......

December 12, 2012

Attack of the Hadoop Hybrids

As if IBM and EMC crashing the Hadoop party wasn't strange enough, now it seems that every data warehousing, database and appliance vendor has a Hadoop co-existence story and, in many cases, a hybrid architecture that they claim provides a best of both worlds solution to data warehousing / big data ...

November 20, 2012

Data Warehousing or Big Data -What’s in a Name?

There is a clever article in this week's Information Week entitled Big Data Debate: End Near For Data Warehousing? The article asks a series of questions that can be reduced to “Will Hadoop supplant the enterprise data warehouse and relegate relational databases to data-mart roles?” This is cert...

November 13, 2012

Fluentd + Hadoop: Instant Big Data Collection

Many companies choose Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) for big data storage. Until recently, however, the only API interface was Java. This changed with the new WebHDFS interface, which allows users to interact with HDFS via......

October 30, 2012

CIOs say BI, Mobility and Cloud are Top Priorities

Every year Gartner produces one of the definitive surveys of IT priorities based on input from CIOs around the world. It is usually one of the most influential and most quoted surveys and this year's survey will be no exception. According to the latest published survey (September 2012), CIOs rated ...

October 23, 2012

Good Customer Support Pays Big (Data) Dividends

At 500 words, the email felt long. Also, I read it on my 4-inch iPhone screen, scrolling multiple times before reaching his signature at the bottom of the message. It also didn’t help it was at 9PM on a Saturday after a hearty dinner......

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