With the Oil and Gas Industry facing some unprecedented times and challenges with the price of crude oil, a slowing economy, and a forecasted decrease in the global market demand, there is a greater focus on a margin-based than production-based business. To address these constant challenges, new ways of thinking must be adopted to improve operational efficiency.

Apache HBase became a top-level project with Apache 10 years ago and Cloudera began contributing to it at the same time (2010). Over this time, it has become one of the largest and most popular open-source tools in big data and one of the most popular NoSQL databases.

People intuitively know that self-driving or autonomous cars present complex engineering challenges. Vehicle assembly is the easy part – we’ve been doing that for 100 years. The real challenge is a data challenge, acquiring and managing the data needed to run the vehicles’ brain, eyes, and ears. Autonomous driving technology complexity lies in the ability to ingest, store, analyze, and deploy large volumes of data & the high bandwidth needs of data-in-motion.

Today’s globalized organizations demand a new standard for communicating and sharing information. That includes data-rich content that moves through environments, networks, and locales. From being stored, analyzed, and shared, to quickly and effectively moving between environments, to spinning up in clusters and informing endless applications—data is more critical than ever.

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 languages, frameworks, and applications supported by Cloudera’s OpDB.

Manufacturing has historically been laggards in its adoption of emerging technologies as business processes, from the production line to back-office operations, have inherently been tied to legacy applications. But that is rapidly changing. Faced with competitive pressures, and driven by technological enhancements across broad sectors of the economy, today’s manufacturing leaders are seeking new ways to improve productivity, reduce downtime, and streamline operations and the supply chain.