Apache Spark Quickstart Packages

Uli Bethke Apache, Spark, SparkSQL

We are pleased to announce three Apache Spark Quickstart Packages. The packages are designed for companies that want to explore and evaluate Apache Spark. Example Use Cases The quickstart packages can be used for various scenarios. I have listed some use cases below. You would like to evaluate a certain Spark feature and identify its benefits and limitations You don’t ...

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Uli Bethke LinkedIn Profile

Uli has 18 years’ hands on experience as a consultant, architect, and manager in the data industry. He frequently speaks at conferences. Uli has architected and delivered data warehouses in Europe, North America, and South East Asia. He is a traveler between the worlds of traditional data warehousing and big data technologies.

Uli is a regular contributor to blogs and books, holds an Oracle ACE award, and chairs the the Hadoop User Group Ireland. He is also a co-founder and VP of the Irish chapter of DAMA, a non for profit global data management organization. He has co-founded the Irish Oracle Big Data User Group.

Window Functions (aka Analytic Functions) in Spark.

Uli Bethke analytic functions, Big Data, MapR, Spark, SparkSQL, SQL

As of Spark 1.4.0 we now have support for window functions (aka analytic functions) in SparkSQL. At Sonra we are heavy users of SparkSQL to handle data transformations for structured data. We also use it in combination with cached RDDs and Tableau for business intelligence and visual analytics. Spark SQL and Window Functions: The rationale I am a strong supporter ...

About the author

Uli Bethke LinkedIn Profile

Uli has 18 years’ hands on experience as a consultant, architect, and manager in the data industry. He frequently speaks at conferences. Uli has architected and delivered data warehouses in Europe, North America, and South East Asia. He is a traveler between the worlds of traditional data warehousing and big data technologies.

Uli is a regular contributor to blogs and books, holds an Oracle ACE award, and chairs the the Hadoop User Group Ireland. He is also a co-founder and VP of the Irish chapter of DAMA, a non for profit global data management organization. He has co-founded the Irish Oracle Big Data User Group.

Hadoop User Group Ireland Meetup (24 June 2015): An Introduction to Spark

Uli Bethke Big Data, Hadoop, HUG Ireland, Spark, SparkSQL, SQL, Tableau, Uncategorized

Thanks again to everyone who attended the third Hadoop User Group Ireland meetup. Also thanks to Bank of Ireland Grand Canal Square for making the venue available. Participants in the event can send feedback to their Twitter and Facebook accounts: facebook.com/BOIGrandCanalSquare twitter.com/BOIGrandCanalSQ. Also thanks to Étienne from Idiro and Antonio from HP for their great presentations. We have all of ...

About the author

Uli Bethke LinkedIn Profile

Uli has 18 years’ hands on experience as a consultant, architect, and manager in the data industry. He frequently speaks at conferences. Uli has architected and delivered data warehouses in Europe, North America, and South East Asia. He is a traveler between the worlds of traditional data warehousing and big data technologies.

Uli is a regular contributor to blogs and books, holds an Oracle ACE award, and chairs the the Hadoop User Group Ireland. He is also a co-founder and VP of the Irish chapter of DAMA, a non for profit global data management organization. He has co-founded the Irish Oracle Big Data User Group.

In-memory analytics with Tableau, SparkSQL, and MapR

Uli Bethke Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, MapR, Spark, SparkSQL, Tableau

Last week Tableau released version 9.0 of their data visualisation tool. From a Big Data point of view the nicest new feature was support for querying cached (in-memory) SchemaRDDs (Data Frames as of Spark 1.3). In this tutorial I will show you how to connect to Spark 1.2.1 on the MapR 4.1 sandbox with Tableau 9.0. Pre-requisites: - Download the ...

About the author

Uli Bethke LinkedIn Profile

Uli has 18 years’ hands on experience as a consultant, architect, and manager in the data industry. He frequently speaks at conferences. Uli has architected and delivered data warehouses in Europe, North America, and South East Asia. He is a traveler between the worlds of traditional data warehousing and big data technologies.

Uli is a regular contributor to blogs and books, holds an Oracle ACE award, and chairs the the Hadoop User Group Ireland. He is also a co-founder and VP of the Irish chapter of DAMA, a non for profit global data management organization. He has co-founded the Irish Oracle Big Data User Group.