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Category: Engineering

Demystifying Context Awareness

You got it, in this blog we are talking about CEP and Event Stream Processing (ESP). In recent years, we have seen a lot of interest in “context-aware” applications or,

November’s biggest releases

With the holiday season approaching, brands are releasing the product that they want us to buy to our relatives (or to ourselves).

A distributed data mining framework accelerated with graphics processing units

In the context of processing high volumes of data, the recent developments have led to numerous models and frameworks of distributed processing running on clusters of commodity hardware. On the

Monthly buzz – n°7

Last month Nokia Devices and Services were bought by Microsoft. Before letting Microsoft build their own Lumia and Asha devices, Nokia still had to release their latest products: The Nokia

An empirical comparison of graph databases

In this blog post we briefly describe our new contribution to the big data domain, especially, graphDB benchmarking. This work was accepted for publication at 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on

DEXA, DaWaK 2013

I spent the last week at Prague, Czech Republic, to present my paper entitled “An Analytics-Aware Conceptual Model For Evolving Graphs”. More details on the paper could be found in

The Dirty Dozen

While it’s not necessary to be dirty, this film tells us one clear thing: you’re stronger with a small team of specialists rather than with a big group of clones.

imGraph: A distributed in-memory graph database

In this blog post we briefly describe our new contribution to the big data domain, especially, graph storage and querying. This work was accepted for publication at 2013 ASE/IEEE International

An empirical comparison of graph databases

In recent years, more and more companies provide services that can not be anymore achieved efficiently using relational databases. As such, these companies are forced to use alternative database models

Brussels Cassandra Users

This last Tuesday EURA NOVA hosted an interesting Cassandra meetup. Several tech enthusiasts and Cassandra fans have met each other for two talks: I briefly introduced what are the challenges