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The full video of my talk from Hadoop Summit (San Jose, June 28, 2016) is now available. In this talk I cover performance considerations when moving analytic workloads into production. I even give away the game changing secret sauce for extreme performance in Actian’s Vector in Hadoop product for SQL analytics. VID: Solving Performance Problems […]
Drowning while trying to understand your options for SQL-based database management in Hadoop? This graphic is a simplified comparison of the various features of several popular products being used today. I outline some of my biggest differentiators in this post. While this is a marketing slide for Actian’s SQL in Hadoop enterprise solution, I wish I saw it earlier so I could […]
My latest notebook aims to mimic the original Scala-based Spark SQL tutorial with one that uses Python instead. Above you can see the two parallel translations side-by-side. Python Spark SQL Tutorial Code Here is the resulting Python data loading code. The SQL code is identical to the Tutorial notebook, so copy and paste if you need it. I […]
