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Categories: Big Data, Adaltas Summit 2021, Infrastructure | Tags: Ambari, Database, HDP, Infrastructure, Tuning, Hadoop, HBase, Big Data, Storage
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Bridging the DBnomics Swagger/OpenAPI schema with GraphQL
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Data Engineering, JAMstack, REST, GraphQL, JavaScript, Node.js, Schema
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Download datasets into HDFS and Hive
Categories: Big Data, Data Engineering | Tags: Business intelligence, Data Engineering, Data structures, Database, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Lake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse
Introduction Nowadays, the analysis of large amounts of data is becoming more and more possible thanks to Big data technology (Hadoop, Spark,…). This explains the explosion of the data volume and the…
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Comparison of different file formats in Big Data
Categories: Big Data, Data Engineering | Tags: Business intelligence, Data structures, Avro, HDFS, ORC, Parquet, Batch processing, Big Data, CSV, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Kubernetes, Protocol Buffers
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CodaLab – Data Science competitions
Categories: Data Science, Adaltas Summit 2018, Learning | Tags: Database, Infrastructure, MySQL, Machine Learning, Node.js, Python
CodaLab Competition is a platform for code execution in the field of Data Science. It is a web interface on which a user can submit code or results and compare themselves to others. Let’s see how it…
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Yahoo's Vespa Engine
Categories: Tech Radar | Tags: Database, Search Engine, Tools, Elasticsearch
Vespa is Yahoo’s fully autonomous and self-sufficient big data processing and serving engine. It aims at serving results of queries on huge amounts of data in real time. An example of this would be…
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MariaDB integration with Hadoop
Categories: Infrastructure | Tags: Database, HA, MariaDB, Hadoop, Hive
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Managing authorizations with Apache Sentry
Categories: Data Governance | Tags: Hue, Database, LDAP, Nikita, Sentry, Ansible, CDH, Deployment
Apache Sentry is a system for enforcing fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster. With this article, we will show you how we are using Apache Sentry at…
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Hive, Calcite and Druid
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BI/OLAP requires interactive visualization of complex data streams: Real time bidding events User activity streams Voice call logs Network trafic flows Firewall events Application KPIs Traditionnal…
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Testing the Oracle SQL Connector for Hadoop HDFS
Categories: Data Engineering | Tags: Database, File system, Oracle, HDFS, CDH, SQL
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By David WORMS
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Categories: Data Engineering | Tags: Sqoop, Database, Java, NoSQL, Oracle, R, RDBMS, Avro, HDFS, Hive, MapReduce, SQL
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Installing and using MADlib with PostgreSQL on OSX
Categories: Data Science | Tags: Database, Greenplum, Statistics, PostgreSQL, SQL
We cover basic installation and usage of PostgreSQL and MADlib on OSX and Ubuntu. Instructions for other environments should be similar. PostgreSQL is an Open Source database with enterprise…
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