4 Key Components of an Enterprise Cybersecurity Strategy
Cybersecurity needs to be a major focus for any enterprise. We live in an age where it’s impossible to avoid the reality of online and network security threats. Fortunately, there are steps that can be taken to reduce risks. Here ...
Stinger and Tez: A primer
What is Stinger?
The Stinger initiative aims to redesign Hive to make it what people want today: Hive is currently used for large batch jobs and works great in that sense; but people also want interactive queries, and Hive is too ...
Big Data Analytics – The game changer in the world of sports
Big Data Analytics has gripped the attention of the world with the fascinating insights that it can provide. It has made businesses able to uncover customer preferences, helped marketing managers understand the market trends and even make career portals provide ...
7 Ways to Get Ready for the Big Data of the Future
Data science is in the midst of transformation, with Big Data technologies starting to significantly encroach on the market share of traditional RDBMSs (relational database management systems). Spending worldwide on Big Data is forecast to hit $114 billion by 2018, ...
Apache Parquet paves the way for better Hadoop data storage
Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.
Already adopted by Netflix and Twitter, Parquet began in 2013 as a ...
Altiscale Hadoop-as-a-Service Delivers Apache Hive 0.13
Altiscale, Inc., a leading innovator in Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions, has announced the availability of Apache Hive™ 0.13 on its HaaS platform, just weeks since its general software release to the industry. For data scientists and businesses that rely on insights ...
Bringing the Best of Apache Hive 0.13 to CDH Users
More than 300 bug fixes and stable features in Apache Hive 0.13 have already been backported into CDH 5.0.0.
Last week, the Hive community voted to release Hive 0.13. We’re excited about the continued efforts and progress in the project and ...
Apache Hive Updated with SQL-on-Hadoop Features
The Apache Hive community has voted on and released version 0.13. This is a significant release that represents a major effort from over 70 members who worked diligently to close out over 1080 JIRA tickets.
Hive 0.13 also delivers the third and ...
How-to Implement Role-based Security in Impala using Apache Sentry
Apache Sentry (incubating) is the Apache Hadoop ecosystem tool for role-based access control (RBAC). In this how-to, I will demonstrate how to implement Sentry for RBAC in Impala. I feel this introduction is best motivated by a use case.
Data warehouse ...