jhorey

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by jhorey 11y ago
Yes, plus some sort of analytics-focused data warehouse (Teradata, etc.). I am almost certain though their analytics team is outsourced to a major contractor like Lockheed Martin.
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by jhorey 11y ago
I forget the exact numbers, but a single year's worth of Medicare part D claims data will be on the order 1TB. That doesn't include the beneficiary and provider datasets (which links patients and doctors) which you'll need to
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Videos from PyData SV 2014(youtube.com)
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by jhorey 12y ago
The comments here do a pretty good job explaining the technical details and common use cases. If, however, you'd like a more narrative-based explanation, you might want to check out my PyData conference presentation ( http://
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by jhorey 12y ago
I would imagine something like Cassandra scaling better (both on the reads & writes), but I'd suspect you'd have to change your data model quite a bit to see those benefits. If you're interested in this line of inquiry, s
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by jhorey 12y ago
If you're using Vagrant, you'll have to manually shut off the VM via `vagrant halt`. If you're just trying to get started with Docker, Boot2Docker ( https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker ) is probably
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by jhorey 12y ago
Here's mine: Ferry is a tool to help developers create (virtual) clusters on their local machines using Docker. Ferry supports Hadoop, Cassandra, Spark, and GlusterFS/Open MPI. GitHub: https://github.com/opencore&#
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by jhorey 12y ago
For those know a bit more, is this basically equivalent to CQL for Cassandra except for HBase?
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by jhorey 12y ago
It's interesting, my experience with companies here in the U.S. (mainly SMBs) are that they feel much more comfortable using a SaaS compared to adopting an internal NoSQL store. Granted most of these companies aren't highly techni
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by jhorey 12y ago
I agree that's a bit short sighted, but I think it's one of perspective. The mistake most people make is to believe that Oracle (and other relational DB vendors) are competing directly against the various NoSQL stores (this includ
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Southland | Technology, Entrepreneurship + Southern Culture(southlandse.com)
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by jhorey 12y ago
If you want a relatively simple way to provision a Hadoop cluster locally, you may want to try out Ferry ( http://ferry.opencore.io ). It's based off Docker, so in theory, you could also write a nice Dockerfile to deploy Mort
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Ferry: Big Data Development Environment using Docker(ferry.opencore.io)
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What big data problems do you have? Help me and I'll share the results on HN(opencore.io)
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Show HN: A general paxos implementation for Java(github.com)
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