Author: Ani Johnson

It seems that, by 2020, every brand and every company will have its own mobile application. Even your neighborhood coffee shop, most likely, has an app that allows you to order a Frappuccino to be delivered to your home or to receive discounts. Every IT entrepreneur dreams of earning a fortune from a successful app every now and again. Today, there is a smartphone application for almost anything! Smartphone apps, namely Android applications, are quickly gaining popularity in the consumer market, and the need for top-notch app development services is increasing as a result. One of the pioneers in the…

A current issue in Big Data is the usage of the Map-Reduce framework, which is intended mainly for batch processing and not ideal for real-time interactive SQL use cases, such as ad-hoc query analysis, machine learning, and other similar applications. Big Data companies are attempting to solve this issue via several projects such as Cloudera Impala, Hortonworks Stinger, and Pivotal HAWQ, all of which seek to enhance Hive performance somehow. Apache Spark is another open-source project getting a lot of traction to address the same problems as MapReduce. It accomplishes so by allowing in-memory access to data stored in HDFS,…