NewSQL….the new era of Relational Databases?
The term NewSQL represents a new generation of Relational Database Management Systems whose goal is reaching the same scalability guarantees of NoSQL databases without giving up ACID properties [...]
Management of small files on HDFS: problem analysis and best practices
Hadoop is now the Big Data de-facto standard platform in the Enterprise world. In particular, HDFS, Hadoop Distributed File System – the Hadoop module implementing the distributed storage [...]
AgileRAI: scalable, real-time, semantic video search
Television content has a very long life cycle. After being produced and broadcasted it is archived in order to be reused later (days, months, even years) for both rebroadcasts and inclusion in [...]
Data Quality for Big Data
In today’s data intensive society Big Data applications are becoming more and more common. Their success stems from the ability to analyze huge collections of data opening up new business [...]
Video Search Prototype
We are working on a new kind of prototype dedicated to broadcasters: the system is able to analyze different kind of flows (video, speech to text, structured feeds, social network feeds, etc) in [...]
Lightbend Certification
We are very proud to announce that we have been certified as consulting partner from Lightbend. The certification process challenged us to show our capabilities in Scala, Akka and Spark, building [...]
Cassandra Certification
Our CTO Paolo Platter has become a certified Apache Cassandra Architect. Cassandra is a great solution for eventually consistent scenarios. It provides linear scalability, no single point of [...]
