What is a Hadoop? Hadoop is an open-source framework written in Java for storing and processing large data sets across clusters of computers, using off-the-shelf hardware. Hadoop is often used to describe the ecosystem of different modules and has almost become synonymous with the term ‘Big Data.’ Why use Hadoop? Hadoop saves time by giving […]
Today, we are proud to launch Exasol V6. Through a series of posts over the next few days, we will highlight a new feature and explain how it helps you with your data analytics challenges. In the age of big data, companies use data from diverse sources, such as relational databases, Hadoop, No SQL, data […]
Our survey about data analytics show, that Apache Spark has indeed become a notable player in the field of big data. In our previous survey about data analytics, we found that performance is the top priority for our customers. Our second survey put the focus on Apache Spark. And, as the results show, Spark has indeed […]
In the case of Apache Spark, there seems to be a real need to shed light on it in order to understand how it interacts with other technologies and how to integrate it in your existing IT environment. Apache Spark – is it really the Swiss Army Knife for analytics? Or does that sound too […]
I can remember the first time people started to talk about “Big Data”. It may be a hackneyed phrase today, but some years ago it took the world of BI and analytics by storm. What then ensued was a mad frenzy to come up with a good definition that encapsulated what was meant by the […]
The London Hadoop User Group gets to hear Exasol’s view Last night I gave a talk to a Meetup of the Hadoop User Group in London about SQL-on-Hadoop, and my theory that it would never replace specialist SQL engines like Exasol. I’ve enjoyed attending these informal meetups over the past year or so – they’re […]
Exasol 5.0 now allows you to run Java code in-memory and parallel. Some people just plain don’t like SQL. OK, maybe they don’t dislike it – it’s just that it’s totally not the way they see the world. The Hadoop guys and gals, for example, live and breathe Java. To them, life is a class […]