Semantics + Search : MarkLogic 7 Gets RDF
Let's talk Org Charts for a moment. Everyone knows what an org chart looks like. At the top you have the boss guy, Mr. Bigg, CEO of Bigg Business, Inc. At the second tier, you have his lieutenants, the guys that head up the various functions within the organization (flipping to show relationships more clearly). What emerges as part of this is the fact that you have what appears to be a tree. This can be made even more obvious when you start jumping to the next level (just showing a couple of people from the programming department): If asked at this point, what would be the best way to store information about this organization chart, chances are pretty good that you'd opt for a language like XML or JSON, since there is a clear container/contained relationship between all the parties. However, suppose for a moment that the IT programmers are intended to be support personnel. While Ian Geek signs their paycheck, they actually work in different departments. … [Read More...]
Solr in Gartner’s Enterprise Search Quadrant
I just finished reading Gartner’s 2013 “ Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search”. I felt compelled to share some differences from their opinion about Solr Search Engines like LucidWorks Search based on my direct experience and knowledge. I was very … [Read More...]
Is It Really Big Data?
Just because you have a lot of data doesn’t automatically mean that you are dealing with Big Data. This came to mind recently when I was building a digital asset management system and was asked to talk about my “Big Data” project. The term didn’t seem … [Read More...]
Getting Started with Hadoop
Avalon is successfully helping a number of our clients derive business benefit from Hadoop. And in that process, we see a very common problem: many of the great developers and architects we encounter just don't know where to start in terms of getting that … [Read More...]
The Not So Complicated World of Web Content Migration – Part 2:The Avalon Way
Introduction In the first part of the blog, we discussed the context behind content migration, the high level details as well as some of the important tasks and facts that needs to be considered before starting the migration. In the second part of the blog, … [Read More...]
Harnessing Hadoop to Visualize Big Data Log Files
One of the demonstration projects that had been on the radar for the Big Data Practice here at Avalon Consulting, LLC was processing some large log data and visualizing it in an interesting way. A few days before the pope was going to be selected we got the … [Read More...]
Visualizing Big Data: The Next Competitive Advantage
"Data is the biggest thing to hit the industry since the PC was invented by Steve Jobs. The PC changed the world, now the Data movement is doing the same. I would argue on the same scale. The idea of Big Data is creating a new industry and disrupting all … [Read More...]
