ScienceSoft Global Menu icon Go to ScienceSoft Global

Careers

For journalists

email contact@scnsoft.com en flag +1 214 306 68 37
en flag +1 214 306 68 37
Contact us

Big Data Blog

Welcome to our Big Data blog for CIOs, IT managers and analysts!

Here, we talk business, not code. Being experts in rendering big data services, we write about complicated issues in a clear way, focusing on how big data can contribute to solving your business tasks. Here, you’ll read about the challenges that big data can bring and the ways to overcome them, find big data technologies contrasted and use cases clearly described.

Bookmark this page and stay tuned to find a lot of useful ideas!

Apache Cassandra vs. Hadoop Distributed File System: When Each is Better
Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Apache Cassandra vs. Hadoop Distributed File System: When Each is Better

Our big data consultants compare Apache Cassandra against Hadoop Distributed File System and describe their key functional differences. Find out which of the two is a better choice for your project and which one shows better performance.
By Alex Bekker
Buried under big data: security issues, challenges, concerns
Big Data, Data Analytics & BI, Information Security

Buried under big data: security issues, challenges, concerns

Big data security concerns are the ones to beware of or else your big data ship can sink. Learn the key big data security challenges to never let that happen.
By Alex Bekker
Big data: a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven? Exploring big data problems
Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Big data: a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven? Exploring big data problems

Unlike challenges, big data problems are conceptual and have a much deeper nature. What are they and do they have the power to threaten your business? Find out here.
By Alex Bekker
IoT and Big Data: Challenges and Applications
Internet of Things, Data Analytics & BI, Big Data

IoT and Big Data: Challenges and Applications

IoT generates volumes of big data which can be applicable to achieve progress in a number of sectors. However, there are specific features in IoT big data collecting, processing and applying which need to be considered in IoT development.
By Alex Grizhnevich
The ‘Scary’ Seven: big data challenges and ways to solve them
Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

The ‘Scary’ Seven: big data challenges and ways to solve them

Big data can drive your company to success, but first you’ll need to deal with 7 major big data challenges. Find out what they are and how to solve them.
By Alex Bekker
Big Data Visualization: Value It Brings and Techniques It Requires
Data Analytics & BI, Big Data

Big Data Visualization: Value It Brings and Techniques It Requires

Explore the value of big data visualization and learn what visualization techniques big data requires: habitual pie charts and line graphs or something special?
By Alex Bekker
Big Data: Examples, Sources and Technologies explained
Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Big Data: Examples, Sources and Technologies explained

While defining big data, we share multi-industry examples of its practical application, list its internal and external sources, as well as name most popular big data technologies.
By Alex Bekker
Spark vs. Hadoop MapReduce: Which big data framework to choose
Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Spark vs. Hadoop MapReduce: Which big data framework to choose

Hadoop MapReduce or Apache Spark? We explore two leading big data frameworks to understand the business needs each of them can satisfy.
By Alex Bekker