Ovum unveils Big Data trends for the year ahead

Global analyst firm, Ovum, has revealed that Big Data and Fast Data will graduate from the early-adopter phase in 2014. Ovum expects a significant wave of production ramp-ups in 2014  and with it, a growing third-party vendor (and IT services) ecosystem that creates Big Data and Fast Data tools and solutions for the enterprise data warehousing and applications markets. This is occurring as SQL and Hadoop platforms are diversifying, adopting multiple personalities, and providing overlapping functions.

According to Ovum’s latest Big Data 2014 Trends to Watch report, SQL queries can now be run against Hadoop, and many SQL databases will be able to handle JSON document-centric queries. And as silicon-based storage  DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) and SSD/Flash  grows more abundant, the path is cleared for a new generation of Fast Data applications that will be game-changers for the enterprise applications market.

Tony Baer, Principal Analyst of Software  Enterprise Solutions and Author of the Report, stated, The rationale is a mix of providing convenience, leveraging familiarity with SQL, and providing unified management over diverse analytic workloads. By bundling multiple engines, management of diverse analytic workloads becomes more convenient. However, Baer adds,
The drawback is that some of these engines or approaches are quite early in development. In many cases, implementations are still proprietary.

Ovum predicts that there is NoSQL life beyond Hadoop. NoSQL platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra are poised for a breakout for Fast Data Internet applications.