Tag: Spark

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. How does a major technology services company equip itself to compete in the digital age – and provide services so outstanding that they can significantly advance the business prospects of their customers? All while reducing complexity, cutting costs, and tightening SLAs – in some cases, by 10x or more? For one such company, the solution is to deliver real-time, operational analytics with Kafka and MemSQL. In this company, data flowed through several data stores, and from a relational, SQL database, into NoSQL data stores for batch query processing, and back into SQL for BI, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Apache Hudi is an open-source data management framework used to simplify incremental data processing and data pipeline development. Apache Hudi enables you to manage data at the record-level in Amazon S3 to simplify Change Data Capture (CDC) and streaming data ingestion, and provides a framework to handle data privacy use cases requiring record level updates and deletes. Data sets managed by Apache Hudi are stored in S3 using open storage formats, and integrations with Presto, Apache Hive, Apache Spark, and AWS Glue Data Catalog give you near real-time access to updated data using familiar tools. Apache Hudi is ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. Creating a data lake with Lake Formation is as simple as defining where your data resides and what data access and security policies you want to apply. Lake Formation then ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jozef's Rblog. [This article was first published on Jozef's Rblog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In the previous parts of this series, we have shown how to write functions as both combinations of dplyr verbs and SQL query generators that can be executed by Spark, how to execute them with DBI and how to achieve lazy SQL statements that only get executed when needed. In this fourth ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Macintyre. On November fourth, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics, the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. With Azure Synapse, data professionals can query both relational and non-relational data using the familiar ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Spark History Server is an extension of the Apache Spark Web User Interface (UI). It presents a visual interface with detailed information about completed and running Spark jobs on a cluster. You can dive into job-specific metrics, and information about scheduler stages, tasks, and running executors.   Amazon EMR now persists the Spark History Server along with the event and container logs outside the cluster and independently of the cluster’s life cycle. This allows you to access and use the Spark History Server for terminated and running clusters alike. In addition, you can access the Spark ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: dacrag. Nooks and Kindles are great, but nothing beats seeing my kids curled up with a good old-fashioned book! “Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." — Malala Yousafzei Growing up with dyslexia was a challenge but what I most clearly remember are the successes. I attribute much of this to my dad’s dedication to my education and reading skills. My dad was a career Air Force Officer and we traveled the world in my early years. When I was only a year old, we left the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Over the past few weeks we have released several new features in Dataflows, allowing users to seamlessly ingest and prepare data that can be widely reused by other users across the Power Platform, including: 7 New Data Connectors: PDF Files Local Folder SharePoint Folder Google BigQuery HDInsight Spark Apache Spark Generic ODBC 40+ New Data Transformations: Combine Files UX Merge Queries – Visual join kind selection Additional Number/Date/DateTime/Duration transformations UX List transformations: Statistics, Sort, Keep/Remove/Reverse items Fill Up/Down Move Columns left/right/beginning/end Replace Errors Other Power Query Authoring Enhancements: Data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health. Data lakes can uncover important signals on customers, products, employees, and processes. Both are critical, yet operate independently of one another, which can lead to uninformed decisions. At the same time, businesses need to unlock insights from all their data to stay competitive and fuel innovation with purpose. Can a single cloud analytics service bridge this gap and enable the agility that businesses demand? Azure Synapse Analytics Today, we ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John 'JG' Chirapurath. Organizations today must embrace a data-driven culture or risk being left behind. A recent Harvard Business Review survey found organizations with data-driven cultures improve revenue by four times and unlock rich insights to drive meaningful business transformation and customer satisfaction. As organizations evolve, new tools and resources are needed to enable them to harness the power of their data anywhere and to build a data-driven culture. Transform data into insights A data-driven culture requires the ability to derive timely and accurate business insights across all data. Modern organizations require analytics services that ... Read More