ASTRA DATASTAX – Cassandra NOSQL database

For those who want to play with a database for practicing there is great resource that DATASTAX offers. Thank you DATASTAX for allowing enthusiasts, DBAs, Architects to try the database on your free platform.

You can use your existing gmail or social media accounts to create the account to sign up. Please keep the database name ready to create.

The database once created can be accessed by the following methods.

• API
• GraphQL
• REST API
• Node.js
• Python
• Java
• C++
• C#
• Javascript SDK

The database also can be integrated with Spark.

https://astra.datastax.com/

Databricks – Data science platform

An innovative solution of database solution suite that has data science built into it. This is free for learning. I love the solutions that allow enthusiasts and Technology people to try the solutions and help implement solution to solve problems for the improving the customer experience. Technology that solves business problems that combine features and rich in presenting in graphical manner is a sure winner….PICTURE SPEAKS THOUSAND WORDS….How wonderful is this!!

Resources:

• Workspace
• Clusters
• Data
• Jobs
• Quick Tutorial
• Import/Export Data
• Notebook – Ability to create consolidated view of data in Graphical format

https://community.cloud.databricks.com/

Cassandra Database Academy

Wonderful Free Resources for Learning on Cassandra NOSQL database. Enjoy this wonderful database solution to help solve many of the enterprise problems….and help drive solutions that scale with a flexible Architecture.

• Courses
• Catalogs
• Resources

https://academy.datastax.com/#/dashboard

BIGDATA – Critical asset that can help make informed decisions

We have heard a lot about Big data, and you might be wondering what is it and how it enables organizations make informed decisions: decisions that affects everything you do to survive and thrive in this turbulent and testing time.

BIG DATA: Broad term for large data sets or make it complex to handle using traditional database applications.

If you compare traditional databases to a small lake, then BIG DATA is like an OCEAN.

I will touch on some of the popular Vendors and who provide the solutions.

• Cloudera  – Apache Hadoop based
• Horton Works – Apache Hadoop based
• Aster Appliances – Proprietary and Hadoop option
• mongodb – NoSQL

Stay tuned for more updates.