When it comes to running a successful business, gaining competitive advantage is everything. That said, pinpointing exactly what might give firms that ‘edge’ isn’t an exact science. It might be a new ...

Confluent Inc. today announced expanded capabilities for its managed service for Apache Flink, the open-source big data processing framework. Unlike the regular open-source Flink, it comes with a ...

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Stream processing systems are pivotal to modern data-driven environments, enabling the continual ingestion, processing and analysis of unbounded data streams across distributed computing resources.

As the world becomes increasingly more demanding in the ways it consumes any form of content, data is no stranger to this phenomenon. The emphasis on real-time, streaming data, as well as IoT, has ...

Attention business leaders: We’ve just reached another inflection point of how data can be used to drive better business results. This is the era of streaming data. The Internet giants have ...

We live in a world in motion. Stream processing allows us to record events in the real world so that we can take action or make predictions that will drive better business outcomes. The real world is ...

Apache Arrow defines an in-memory columnar data format that accelerates processing on modern CPU and GPU hardware, and enables lightning-fast data access between systems. Working with big data can be ...