The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

The advent of the emerging field of Big Data brought with it the promise of highly-scalable databases that could handle terabytes of data at a time. As anyone dealing with colossal datasets will ...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a phrase that is neither legal nor technical. Nonetheless, it is increasingly employed in talks concerning the future of finance and its regulation. Decentralization; ...

This will depend upon what types of data you want to collect, the volume of data, your skill sets, your network, and your objectives. This should help you design a distributed big data architecture ...

Distributed database startup DittoLive Inc. said today it has closed on a $45 million early-stage round of funding to help enterprises synchronize application data in situations where there’s no ...

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One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

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