Big Data Etymology and Enough of the ETL Already

Big Data continues to unveil new areas of value to businesses. However, merging existing structured data from relational databases with the unstructured data stored in Hadoop File Systems and NoSQL databases – a process known as extract-transform-load (ETL) – remains a tedious and time-consuming process in the world of predictive analytics.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Curtis Breville explores the concerns around ETL for data transformation software vendors to address and provides insight to today’s alternatives to ETL.

Read the full article here.