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This blog post is part of a series on Cloudera’s Operational Database (OpDB) in CDP. Each post goes into more details about new features and capabilities. Start from the beginning of the series with, Operational Database in CDP. This blog post gives you an overview of the OpDB management tools and features in the Cloudera Data Platform. The tools discussed in this article will help you understand the various options available to manage the operations of your OpDB cluster.

There are many reasons to run a big data distribution, such as Cloudera Data Hub (CDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), in the cloud with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The main reason is agility. When the business needs to onboard a new use case, a data admin can bring on additional virtual infrastructure to their clusters in the cloud in minutes or hours. With an on-prem cluster, it may take weeks or months to add the infrastructure capacity for the new use cases.

The world is full of linear relationships. When one apple costs $1 and two apples cost $2, it's easy to figure out the price of any number of apples. But what happens when you have 100s of data points? What if your data source is noisy? That's when it's helpful to use a technique called linear regression. In this article Julie Kent shows us how linear regression works, and walks through a practical example in Ruby.

Insurance companies around the world are striving ahead with innovative offerings that are fundamentally changing the insurance landscape. Insurance companies are creating personalized offerings and products that are tailored to the specific needs of their customers. For example, they are implementing usage-based insurance (UBI) based on driving habits, miles driven and driving history and discounts on health insurance based on health trackers, etc.).

2020 brings a new decade, and for the U.S Census Bureau, a new challenge. As the federal government’s—and the nation’s—leading provider of demographic and economic data, its largest initiative is the U.S. Census, which is conducted every 10 years and counts every resident in the United States. For the first time in U.S history, the census will be conducted primarily online instead of by mail.

As the global business climate is experiencing rapid change due to the health crisis, the role of data to provide much needed solutions to urgent issues are being highlighted throughout the world. Helping customers manage critical modern data systems for years, Unravel sees a heightened interest in fortifying the reliability of business operations in healthcare, logistics, financial services and telecommunications.