An Introduction to IoT & MQTT
This article introduces the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the popular, lightweight Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol for moving data from IoT devices into processing frameworks. Read More
Voracity and the Logical Data Warehouse (LDW)
The traditional or Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) has been at the center of data’s transformation to business intelligence (BI) for years. An EDW involves a centralized data repository (traditionally, a relational database) from which data marts and reports are built. Read More
The Use of Data Lakes
Has your organization considered using a data lake? This article explains what a data lake is, and posits a data lake architecture optimized for analytic results. Read More
5 Downsides to Megavendor Devotion
Very large legacy IT vendors, or what we’ll call megavendors, provide valuable hardware, software, and services to companies worldwide. Often however, their technical approach, product roadmap, and price point will not be the best fit for your use case. Read More
Linear Regression – A Predictive Tool in IRI Voracity…
Linear regression is a staple data analysis function for financial, economic, research, and many other disciplines, that helps discover new data correlations. Users of the IRI Voracity platform can now simultaneously process big data from any number of sources and present customized trend lines to help business users make predictions. Read More
Opportunities in Digital Business
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
-George Bernard Shaw
The mathematical symbol for change is the Greek uppercase letter delta: Δ. Read More
The Orca and IRI Voracity
Intelligent. Fierce. Powerful. Fast. Voracious.
Killer whales, or orcas thrive in every world ocean and in many seas. They are intelligent, lively, and highly social creatures that form close, matrilineal groups. Read More
Big Data Analytics in Use
In ancient times, the ability to process and analyze information was invaluable. Greek knowledge of astronomy gave rise to the Antikythera Mechanism, an analog computer with sophisticated bronze gears that predicted astronomical events like lunar phases and eclipses. Read More
FieldShield SDK
IRI provides a software development kit (SDK) to help FieldShield users apply column-level encryption, decryption, hashing, and redaction algorithms in Java and .NET projects for more in-situ or dynamic data masking requirements. Read More
Creating Test Data for Cassandra
UPDATE: Q1’17: Native JSON file generation, and available JDBC and ODBC drivers for NoSQL RDBs like Cassandra, now provide a more seamless connection than the CSV/import approach shown below. Read More
Creating Test Data for MongoDB
Introduction: This example demonstrates an older method of using IRI RowGen to generate and populate large or complex collection prototypes for testing or system capacity using flat files. Read More