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Salesforce.com's Phoenix : SQL layer for your Hbase

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Ever wished to have the ability to write SQL queries for your data stored in Hbase ?I know your answer is gonna be  Hive . But I am talking about something which doesn't incur heavy start-up costs and which is based on native HBase APIs rather than going through the MapRreduce framework. Need not worry. Salesforce.com comes to the rescue this time. Salesforce.com has recently announced Phoenix, an SQL layer over HBase. What do I meant by that??? Phoenix is an SQL layer over HBase delivered as a client-embedded JDBC driver targeting low latency queries over HBase data. Phoenix takes our SQL query, compiles them into a series of HBase scans, and orchestrates the running of those scans to produce regular JDBC result sets. Cool..Isn't it? Phoenix doesn't depend on MapReduce, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't believe in the philosophy of  bringing computation closer to data . It very well does that, through :        Coprocessors :  To perform operations on t

Audi's Autonomous Piloted Parking : Real Life Transformers???

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Ever wished to have a car which would make you feel yourself like 007. NO??? Need not worry. Soon you will be able to do that (hopefully ;) ). How?? Keep on reading... At the  Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which was held in Las Vegas few days ago Audi showed something which would definitely blow your mind. CES is considered as world’s most important electronics show. There, Audi had shown several new technological aspects and one of them is through this self-driven Audi A7 showing off the brand’s piloted parking system . It reminds of James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies where Bond would operate his BMW 750iL with a remote control. Here we have Annie Lien (Senior Engineer, Electronics Lab at Volkswagen Group of America), who shows us a cool demo of this awesome feature. She directs an Audi A7 using her phone and it parks itself at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Las Vegas and on leaving hotel; she directs it off from the parking to her. They call it as Park Assist . And this what Aud

Google Spanner : The Future Of NoSQL

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Quite often, while working with Hbase , I used to feel how cool it would be to have a database that can replicate my data to datacenters across the world consistently. So that I can take the pleasure of global availability and geographic locality. And also which will save my data even in case of some catastrophe or natural disaster. Which supports general-purpose transactions, and provides a SQL-based query language. And which has features of an SQL database as well. But it was only untill recently I found out that it is not an imagination anymore. I was sitting with a senior+friend of mine at a Cafe Coffee Day nearby and having a casual chat on BigData stuff. During the discussion he told me about something called as SPANNER . (You might be wondering, why the heck I have emphasized on the word spanner so much. Believe me, you will do the same after reading this post). After that meeting I almost forgot about that incident. Out of the blue, the word spanner flashed back to my mind

This is what 128GB of RAM looks like

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Isn't it awesome?????

Premium Suite For Samsung Galaxy Note

If you are envious of your friends or colleagues, who are flaunting  their new Galaxy Note-II having the  awesome Jelly Bean, you don't have to do it anymore. Samsung is there to help you out. They have recently announced the Premium Suite Upgrade for the original Galaxy Note just like they had done for Galaxy S-III some days ago. Although they haven't announced any exact date yet, it is expected to arrive sooner. For the most up to date info you can always visit the official link . This Premium Upgrade includes all of the latest features like Multi-Window etc along with the latest Android version, Jelly Bean. Here is a list of the cool features that are bundled with the upgrade. 1.   Multi-Window :  The Multi-Window feature allows us to do multiple tasks on the same screen simultaneously. It not only gives us a great level of comfort but also looks damn cool. 2. Popup Note / Video / Browser : Popup Note helps in writing down the notes just by pulling out S Pen or double