Category: IBM

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of Db2 Big SQL on Cloudera platform.  Extending the support on Hadoop platforms, Db2 Big SQL will now add support to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) v5.x platform along with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 & v3.1 Db2 Big SQL is an advanced SQL engine optimized for advanced analytics in a Big Data environment. IBM infuses the power of industry leading Db2 in open source technologies for machine learning, interactive and batch analytics use cases. With Big Data, there is overwhelming amount of data but unless you plan and execute the ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Maxim Neaga. Ranger plugins interact with Ranger Admin via HTTP calls to its REST API. For security reasons, you may want to set up SSL to encrypt that communication. This article will discuss how to set up the Ranger Admin and Big SQL Ranger plugin for SSL using public CA certificates using an example scenario. For the purpose of this demonstration, we will assume Ranger Admin runs on NodeA and Big SQL Head on NodeB. Step 1: Obtain CA-signed SSL certificates for each FQDN An SSL Certificate is issued to a Fully Qualified Domain Name. Thus, ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of IBM Db2 Big SQL v6.0 IBM Db2 Big SQL, an advanced SQL engine on Hadoop, has been making strides with the fast-evolving open source ecosystem by supercharging your analytical workloads on data lakes. The core capabilities of Db2 Big SQL focusses on data virtualization, SQL compatibility, scalability, performance, and of course enterprise security/governance, making it a desirable query engine to seek insights from disparate data sources including Hadoop. Db2 Big SQL v6.0 is now being released that introduces a solution that is integrated with the latest platform HDP 3.1 and enhanced performance ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Lets start 2019 with some exciting news! It was a great year for IBM’s Db2 and Big data team. We heard our customers (you) and took some strategic decisions for the product. We are determined to do the same for 2019. With that spirit in mind, we would like to share some interesting updates…. Events: IBM Think 2019 is just around the corner, from Feb 11th – 15th, 2019 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. At Think, we have dedicated a day (Feb 11th) just for you, our customers, to meet with product teams ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: JessicaLeeYau. The mapping of IBM Big Replicate to WANdisco Fusion technology is provided below: IBM Big Replicate Releases as of Fusion 2.11.1: IBM Big Replicate Release IBM Release Date WANdisco Fusion Release IBM Big Replicate 2.1.2.1 3/16/2018 WANdisco Fusion 2.11.1 IBM Big Replicate 2.1.2.2 4/30/2018 WANdisco Fusion 2.11.2 IBM Big Replicate for Hadoop 2.12 7/13/2018 WANdisco Fusion 2.12 IBM Big Replicate for Object Stores 2.12 7/13/2018 WANdisco Fusion 2.12 IBM Big Replicate for Hive 2.0 (Refreshed) 7/13/2018 (Refreshed 9/4/18) WANdisco Live Hive Plugin 2.0 (Refreshed 2.0.1) IBM Big Replicate for Security 2.0 7/13/2018 WANdisco Live Sentry ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. As we are wrapping up 2018 and looking ahead to the New Year, we are delighted to share some new capabilities added to our products and some details on events coming early next year.   Product news: Excited to announce the availability of IBM Db2 Big SQL v5.0.4 (on HDP 2.6) IBM Db2 Big SQL, an advanced SQL engine on Hadoop, has been making strides with the fast-evolving open source ecosystem by supercharging your analytical workloads on data lakes. The core capabilities of Big SQL focusses on data virtualization, SQL compatibility, scalability, performance, and of course ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: JessicaLeeYau. Today (December 4, 2018), I am very excited to announce the first release of IBM Big Replicate for Backup v2.0, now available! Big Replicate is a replication technology that gives you LIVE DATA — consistent data everywhere, spanning platforms and locations, even for changing data at petabyte scale. Big Replicate enables data replication for Hadoop and cloud object stores with continuous data availability and consistency exceeding the most demanding enterprise SLAs. Big Replicate for Backup is an add-on to Big Replicate for Hadoop which provides backup and data restoration capabilities to your LIVE DATA environment ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of IBM Db2 Big SQL v5.0.4 IBM Db2 Big SQL, an advanced SQL engine on Hadoop, has been making strides with the fast-evolving open source ecosystem by supercharging your analytical workloads on data lakes. The core capabilities of Db2 Big SQL focusses on data virtualization, SQL compatibility, scalability, performance, and of course enterprise security/governance, making it a desirable query engine to seek insights from disparate data sources including Hadoop. Db2 Big SQL v5.0.4 is now being released that introduces a solution for automatic failover for HA and enhanced performance capabilities to data lakes ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. IBM Db2 Big SQL v6.0 BETA is now generally available. This release of Db2 Big SQL is for environments that have the latest version of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v3.0.1. IBM Db2 Big SQL, an advanced SQL engine on Hadoop, has been making strides with the fast-evolving open source ecosystem by supercharging your analytical workloads on data lakes. The core capabilities of Big SQL focusses on data virtualization, SQL compatibility, scalability, performance, and of course enterprise security/governance, making it a desirable query engine to seek insights from disparate data sources including Hadoop.  What’s new in Db2 ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Mara_Matias. The objective of this series is to explore performance for BigSQL Federation using practical examples. This series is divided into two parts. Part 1 will look at function performance with emphasis on pushdown analysis Part 2 will look at performance for queries that join nicknames with local tables and/or other nicknames You are reading Part 2. We will be taking over where we left off on Federation Performance – Part 1 . The setup described will be added to the existing from Part 1. All the code shown comes from either jsqsh, or bash command ... Read More