A practical seminar in which the popular technologies for storing and processing big data are critically examined and clarified by independent data warehouse and database specialist Rick van der Lans. All new technologies are covered: Hadoop, MapReduce, Kudu, Spark, NoSQL, Graph, NewSQL, analytical SQL databases, GPU databases, Kafka and streaming databases. What are the use cases of the different solutions for your organization? How do you integrate with existing infrastructures? The focus will be on the use of big data within business intelligence and data warehouse systems.