A lot of editorial content about data, and tools built for data analysis, includes a Pavlov-like association between "big data" and "modern" computing. Relational database approaches to addressing data in a form built to accommodate analysis with Structured Query Language (SQL) tools are treated ...

The final cloud-like computing theme contributing to the unfortunate fog around the notion of "big data" is JSON. In my opinion, enterprise consumers of big data solutions built with NOSQL databases aren't going to be able to connect the dots from the presentation on the JSON open-source project ...