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 surprised when I didn’t find any of the “flavors” of Solr Search Engines in the leaders [...]
Is It Really Big Data?
May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 to fit, but at first I wasn’t sure why. [...]
Getting Started with Hadoop
May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 base level of technical knowledge in Hadoop. And they’re too busy [...]
Harnessing Hadoop to Visualize Big Data Log Files
March 20, 2013 By 3 Comments
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 idea that the traffic patterns at Patheos [...]
